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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 02:51:31 -0400
From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net>
To: dolgan@linuxfan.com
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Subject: Re: Gnome compliance?
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Hmm... I've been using the latest sawfish and gnome for some time
now (5.0-CURRENT) and it has been working fine. I am even using
the development releases of XFree864. I have been using netscape4,
netscape6, mozilla... the works. It seems to be fine, except for that
pesky console switch thing that locks up the mouse when I switch to the
console.

Dolgan had the audacity to say:
>   OK, this problem got a whole lot weirder, but a whole lot brighter.
> 
> I noticed that Netscape kept crashing whenever I went to a site (It
> still does - but there's always
> Mozilla and right now, I want GNOME working. One problem at a time,
> right?), so I installed
> Netscape 3 for experiment's sake.
> 
> Suddenly, I restarted X, and sawfish was "gnome compliant" and Gnome was
> zippy. That makes me
> think that sawfish's compliancy is causing Gnome to be sluggish -
> somehow.
> 
> Unfortunately, next time I restarted X it went back to crap.
> 
> Does anyone know what could be related to SAWFISH that could be causing
> Gnome to not think it's
> wm-compliant?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Dolgan wrote:
> ...
> : I installed clean from a 6-27-2000 snapshot. That was yesterday.
> Wouldn't
> : that make the ports updated, or not..?
> 
> Hmm, it should yes.
> 
> : Why would it be a ports thing, though? It's Gnome 1.2.1... latest. Is
> there
> : something weird with ports?
> : Latest sawfish too.
> 
> Yeah, but ports often apply several patches to make things work right on
> 
> FreeBSD, those patches could have been updated without a version upgrade
> 
> of gnome. Given that you installed from a snapshot of yesterday, you
> should have the latest ports though. At this point, I'm not sure what
> the
> problem is.. Maybe someone who runs the combination would have an idea.
> 
> * Matt Heckaman   - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca  http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ *
> 
> --
> Dolgan
> icq@14444322
> dolgan@linuxfan.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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-- 
Coleman Kane
President, 
UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu


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