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strummer

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Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 87

Sawfish - nothing happens -solved-

When I start Sawfish, I only get a black screen, no menus etc. If I have some programs in my .xinitrc, they appear and have that "Sawfish theme". But no matter how I edit my .sawfishrc, seems like it doesn't affect at all. I've added load-path, require sawmill-defaults and other stuff. Sometimes Sawfish just exits and reports it can't find sawfish/wm/ext/beos-window-menu. The lisp-files are in /usr/share/sawfish/1.3/lisp and also in ~/.sawfish/lisp, where I copied them. I tried adding them both to load-list..

I know Sawfish isn't very popular (?), but I hope there's some people still using it..

Last edited by strummer (2007-09-22 14:52:32)

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Theomachos

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Registered: 2007-07-31

Posts: 67

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Re: Sawfish - nothing happens -solved-

Well...the black screen is quite normal. You can call the menu with the middle mouse-button.
Try to use (require 'sawfish.wm.defaults) as first line in your sawfishrc - then it should work.

Please post your sawfishrc if you encounter any further problems

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strummer

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Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 87

Re: Sawfish - nothing happens -solved-

Yeah I know about middle click, but the menu doesn't appear..

Now I only have (require 'sawmill-defaults) in my .sawfishrc, also tried (require 'sawfish.wm.defaults)

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strummer

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Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 87

Re: Sawfish - nothing happens -solved-

Wow.. I didn't have rep-gtk installed.. I started compiling my own version and configure sais the package is missing..

So now it works, of course there's much to configure..

Last edited by strummer (2008-08-22 15:49:28)

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