Am Montag, 2. September 2013, 12:45:08 schrieb Bradley M. Kuhn: > Sam <[email protected]> wrote on this list 1 year and 1 week ago: > > I'm currently [running sawfish] compiled from git (pulled 2 days ago, Aug > > 22 2012) ... [and] window rules work, viewports work, the "main" popup > > menu > > is not showing > > ... which occurred when Sam had sawfish installed locally into his home > > directory: > > /home/sam/lib/sawfish/sawfish-menu > > And then Sam followed up almost exactly a year ago with: > > OK, I got this working - all the menus (root menus, window button > > menus) are showing up appropriately; BUT I have no idea WHY this is > > working... at one of the console TTYs I ran this: > > (DISPLAY=:0.0 sawfish --replace )& > > I had been starting sawfish from inside a running X session. [A]lso, > > putting sawfish in $HOME/.xinitrc was forcng X to exit completely with > > no meaningful error messages > > Oddly, almost exactly a year after Sam was dealing with issue, I had the > exact same issue and found this thread upon searching the net for the > problem. > > I have resolved the problem, and I'm posting now primarily for the > archives of this thread so others can find a solution. > > The key solution is: you have be sure the > /path/to/sawfish/installed/bin/ is present in the PATH environment > variable for the environment for sawfish. > > The reason --replace likely worked for Sam above is because that was > launched in such an environment. > > Also, for good measure, I made sure the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment > variable contained the /path/to/sawfish/installed/lib/. I don't know if > there are problems when you fail to do this, as I did it preemptively > and haven't tested without it. > > So, I'm now calling sawfish from my .xsession with: > env PATH=/path/to/sawfish/installed/bin:${PATH} > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/sawfish/installed/lib > /path/to/sawfish/installed/bin/sawfish > > BTW, one other thing I did, that I am unsure whether or not it had an > impact or not. In /path/to/sawfish/installed/lib/rep/ I did a: > $ ln -s rep librep > > ... because I noticed upon running strace of the sawfish-menu binary, > that there were references looking for a directory called > /path/to/sawfish/installed/lib/librep/ However, that may have been a red > herring.
Sawfish should know there sawfish-menu is installed, but it seems it doesn't always, I'm gonna check into this issue. Regards, Chris
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