On Die, 2003-03-18 at 10:41, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > > On testing I have recently got some problems that apt-get reinstall > didn't solve. > > Sawfish regularly disappear, letting windows' content alone; i have to > switch to twm in gnome control center to get some control back.
Sounds like sawfish crashes. > Nedit too cannot anymore support more than one open window: it's > impossible to write in a second open text file. > Is there a parameter in XFree to correst this ? I doubt this has anything to do with the X server, might be a sawfish problem as well. Maybe try a different sawfish version or another window manager? > (I'm always on Gnome 1.4). In GNOME 2, you can set up the window manager to respawn, which would work around the first problem. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast