Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:53:23 GMT From: James Erickson <psykojime@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/127750: sawfish won't draw window decorations unless gnome is installed Message-ID: <200809301453.m8UErNAH070262@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200809301500.m8UF08Tq021848@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 127750 >Category: ports >Synopsis: sawfish won't draw window decorations unless gnome is installed >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 30 15:00:08 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: James Erickson >Release: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE >Organization: none >Environment: FreeBSD odysseus@2wire.net 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 root@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: i installed sawfish-1.3.3 and sawfish-themes from ports. everything worked except there were no window decorations. sawfish-ui also would not let me modify or choose other themes. i tried installing many different things to resolve this but no matter what sawfish always said "error: no such image /usr/share/sawfish/themes/Crux/inactive:top-left-border.png". this image does exist at the stated location. i became totally frustrated with sawfish and installed gnome2. after installing gnome2 sawfish has window decorations. i think the dependency checking for the sawfish port needs to be looked into. installing gnome is not a good way to resolve dependencies. other than this i am very happy with freebsd. thank you for your efforts in bringing us this fine operating system. >How-To-Repeat: just install sawfish from ports. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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