On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:18:02PM -0400, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> I updated my Helix-installed GNOME from the freezer-burn RPMs and now
> on both machine, I cannot configure my window manager. A few options
> appear when I launch the master config panel, but changes are not
> recorded, and most options return the message "Sawfish is not running"
> (when it clearly is running).
Helix does some funny things sometimes... I'd recommend deleting the
helix sawfish/librep/rep-gtk packages prior to installing Mandrake's
(which are identical to the freezer burn RPMs just built on different
machines).
> Was it a bad idea to install these RPMs _over_ the Helix distribution?
> Should I clear out the Helix rpms? Curiously, on the laptop, I did a
> fresh install on a clean (no Helix or KDE) machine and get the same
> "sawfish not running" error.
Which sawfish? Which librep? Which rep-gtk? Please do
rpm -qa|grep sawfish
And give mt the output, same with librep and rep-gtk. Thanks.
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