Good that so many folks have been able to use Sawfish on Modern OS`s! i have not in Xubuntu 1204. i do see the option at sign on time... but no joy alas. i did try with a hello world app~ ... but maybe where? ie where is the sawfish init file supposed to be? Why is there no menu items? Perhaps i access them in other ways? How? Is there a readable FAQ somewhere that covers this?
HELP! ---~ hello-world in: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2011-March/msg00039.html greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Christopher Roy Bratusek [email protected] to: [email protected] date: 18 August 2012 01:49 subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux distro I'm not using Fedora but Debian... but I'm using Sawfish with Razor-Qt a very good small desktop environment that offers all you need not more (session manager, some widgets, panel, volume manager, user-to-root for mounting volumes with root priviledges...). Sawfish can be choosen (as in KDE4) from a drop-down box as Razor-Qts WM, so there's practically nothing to do to get Sawfish up and running. Regards, Chris -- from: Andrew A. Adams [email protected] to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Daniel Fetchinson <[email protected]> date: 17 August 2012 17:00 subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux distro I've been reasonably happy with sawfish under KDE. I just installed Fedora 16 with the KDE rather than Gnome option and then put sawfish in. Not a perfect replacement for Gnome 2, but easier than any of the other options. I don't find KDE 4 as annoying as some did, but then I was moving from Gnome 2 not KDE 3, and my comparison was compared with Gome 3 (yuck!). --- Professor Andrew A Adams [email protected] Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/ -- from: dmg [email protected] via gmail.com to: [email protected] date: 17 August 2012 14:38 subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux distro IN my opinion, it is not worth it to fight the desktop. My usual method is: * find out which window manager they use, then rename it, and create a symlink from the original name to sawfish or * run sawfish --replacel every time I reboot (which is once in a bluemoon). I find that this option is less expensive over time than trying to configure _again_ sawfish which whichever environment ubuntu comes out next. by the way, I am running now xfce4. I got tired of gnome. --dmg --- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org -- from: Michal Jaegermann [email protected] to: [email protected] date: 17 August 2012 14:06 subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux distro What is to "manage"? sawfish rpm packages for Fedora (sawfish-1.8.91-1.fc16 in repos for f16) AFAICT include /usr/share/xsessions/sawfish.desktop file which means that you can pick up sawfish as an "alternative" session in gdm if sawfish is installed. The same is true in the current "rawhide" as well (at this moment package sawfish-1.9.0-2.fc18 in repos). Such session by default is somewhat "bare-bones" and it is up to you to customize it for your needs. If you want to run sawfish and include some elements provided by Gnome that works as well as long as a "fallback" mode is not broken too badly. Executing there 'sawfish --replace' is not a great achievement. That can be arranged in a way which does not require doing that "by hand" and how to get there it was described in the past on this list. Search archives. Michal -- from: greg heil [email protected] to: [email protected] date: 17 August 2012 14:05 subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux distro Robert Good it is going in xfce4 for you. i unfortunately have had no luck in Xubuntu 1204... What did you put in your xinitrc file? greg ~krsnadas.org -- from: Robert 'Bobby' Zenz [email protected] to: [email protected] date: 17 August 2012 13:23 subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux distro Hello. I'm not sure if Sawfish will work Gnome3, Gnome3 is not exactly that classic-WM-friendly type of environment. Though, you could try. For Sawfish I'd either suggest a "pure" Sawfish session, Xfce or Mate. Sawfish works very good with Xfce and Mate, I had the former running for some time and the later now as my main environment. Getting it to run with Xfce is a little bit tricky, as you need to write a custom .xinitrc to launch Xfce with Sawfish. With Mate it's easier, as you just need to replace a value in the Mate-Conf (/desktop/mate/session/required-components I think). Sawfish ML -- from: fuchur [email protected] to: [email protected] date: 17 August 2012 12:59 subject: Re: [Sawfish] preferred way to install on "recent" linux distro Install gnome 2 alongside with gnome 3 not work. On fedora i use xfce4 with sawfish. But now also mate is in the repos for 16 17 and also in 18. Regards, Fuchur GPG Fingerprint: CA3B 8204 5B3E 6D48 6D53 C116 E5BC 70D5 B8D7 B2B0 -- On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:44:08PM +0200, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: Hi folks, Recent linux distros typically come with gnome 3 (unfortunately). If I'd like to have sawfish how would I go about it? Install gnome 2 alongside with gnome 3? Will that work? Or should I install MATE which is a gnome 2 fork? If anyone managed to get sawfish on fedora 16 or fedora 17 I'd be happy to hear your story! Cheers, Daniel Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- Sawfish ML
