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and subject line Bug#1135564: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #946972,
regarding sawfish: Sometimes does not notice changes in xinerama / multihead
configuration
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Package: sawfish
Version: 1:1.11.90-1.1+b1
Severity: normal
An older version of sawfish (though I don't have a record of which)
would reliably notice when the xinerama setup changed, adding or
removing the second display I have on my laptop's displayport adapter.
While the second display was unavailable, sawfish would never try to
place new windows over the "dead" head, and they would all reliably
appear on the laptop's internal screen.
On the current version, this sometimes does not happen. When it fails
to notice the external display being taken away, new windows often get
placed on the dead area of the external monitor, currently inaccessible,
and I have to use menus/keyboard shortcuts to move the window onto the
visible laptop-screen area. When it fails to notice the external display
returning, the display remains blank and windows cannot be moved to it.
However I know this isn't just that the display itself is inactive
because placing the mouse on the far righthand edge of the internal
laptop display *will* show the cursor overflowing onto that second
screen. X11 itself is drawing there, but sawfish refuses to move any
windows into it.
This failure to notice changes seems unreliable though - sometimes
the change will be noticed and placement will be correct; sometimes not.
I have noticed no particular pattern to when it does or doesn't take
effect.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,
'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages sawfish depends on:
ii libc6 2.29-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.0+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.62.3-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-4
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-7
ii libpangoxft-1.0-0 1.42.4-7
ii librep16 0.92.5-3+b5
ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.8-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxft2 2.3.2-2
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.3-1
ii rep 0.92.5-3+b5
ii rep-gtk 1:0.90.8.2-3
ii sawfish-data 1:1.11.90-1.1
ii xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 0.8.8-1+b1
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 351-1
sawfish recommends no packages.
Versions of packages sawfish suggests:
pn gnome-control-center <none>
ii menu 2.1.47+b1
pn yelp <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/X11/sawfish/site-init.d/00debian.jl changed:
; load the sawfish defaults
(require 'sawfish-defaults)
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1:1.11.90-1.2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package sawfish has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1135564
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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