Hello all, I've been a big fan of sawfish for several years. Thanks very much to the developers.
Today I tried updating from rep-gtk 0.18 and sawfish 1.3.5.1 to rep-gtk 0.18.6r2 and sawfish 1.5.0. Everything built OK but when I restarted X sawfish wasn't there and my X error log contained a complaint about gnome-panel: (gnome-panel:PID) Wnck-CRITICAL **: wnck_workspace_get_number: assertion `WNCK_IS_WORKSPACE (space)' failed I was able to restart sawfish manually, but the desktop was messed up, with icons overlapping panels. I tried deleting my old ~/.sawfish/custom just in case there was anything incompatible in there and started X again. No dice, same problem. I then tried reverting sawfish to 1.3.5.1. Again the broken start-up. Finally I reverted rep-gtk to 0.18 and everything works again. But I'd like to retry the update if I can figure out what's going wrong. I should perhaps mention that my gnome version is rather old: the panel is gnome-panel-2.2.2.2. That's because I feel that recent gnome has been too "dumbed down" -- there are things I can do with the old gnome and that can't with recent releases. But my gtk installation is current, version 2.16.5. -- Allin Cottrell Department of Economics Wake Forest University
