There's some clue about this bug.
If the following option of sawmill is set, then sawmill will not hang.
3.1 open gnomecc (Gnome Control Center)
3.2 select "Sawmill window manager"->"Placement"
3.3 change the "Method of selecting the position of a freshly-mapped
transient window" option from "randomly" to be "best-fit", then click
"OK"
Also, the setting of
"Method of selecting the position of a freshly-mapped window" (not
transient window) option to be "randomly" will cause many application to
crash sawmill. So, both options (normal and transient window) should not
be set to "randomly", that will cause a serious bug.
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
>
> Follow these step to regenerate this bug.
>
> 1. use Mandrake 7.1
>
> 2. create new user
> $ useradd test1 -p ''
>
> 3. login into gnome/sawmill desktop as user test1
>
> 4. open gnumeric application
>
> 5. select some texts from some X terminals to copy that texts into
> X clipboard
>
> 6. click menu Edit->Paste in gnumeric application
>
> 7. The X system will then hang. Sawmill will hang and eat 99% cpu time.
>
