Release notes for sawfish-mmc-1.4.3

Bugs found in the 1.4.3 version (not necessarily specific to this version)

building

• error--> (file-error "No such file or directory" "sawfish/wm/util/x"): http://mail.gnome.org/archives/sawfish-list/2004-June/msg00008.html

this happens only on some boxes. i suspect librep being different. Needs proper clarification! please provide info on failure!

• xkb aware xlib is a requirement. But xkb enabled server is not. ./configure should detect & avoid even the libs :( i have to study configure.in and see how to test for xkb xlibs.

running

• code which installs the grabs might not run, if other code breaks in add-window-hook(s) --- ??? reported. i don't see it.
• Sometimes I can't edit a window match: click on the Modify button and nothing pops up.

How to run in place (without installing -- make install):

• cd in the sawfish directory
• link: ln src/gtk-style src/.libexec
• menu: install -m +775 scripts/sawfish-menu.jlc src/.libexec/sawfish-menu
• run: SAWFISHDOCFILE=./DOC SAWFISHDIR=./ SAWFISHLISPDIR=./lisp SAWFISHEXECDIR=./src/.libexec src/sawfish

note, that you will need sawfish-ui and sawfish-client installed (i guess that other versions are compatible) maybe in that case you could set SAWFISHEXECDIR to the old one like SAWFISHEXECDIR=/usr/lib/sawfish/1.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/

possible problems:

• ~/.sawfish/custom may have broken package name : hover-shade should be sawfish.wm.ext.hover-shade
• gtkrc in themes! many themes (require 'gtkrc). i've converted Crux and gtk themes to require correctly (require 'sawfish.wm.util.gtkrc)

note:

images didn't work when running in place b/c expand-file-name fails and sets an error. -> b/c default-directory was not gaoled!

building problems:

see troubles-with-rep