This may not be a debian-specific question but I think it probably is, since it involves (at least in part) the debian-specific menu system.
I run two boxes, both with potato installed, both up to date with the latest revisions (as of Wed evening, Nov 22nd anyway) from proposed-updates and security.debian.org. I've been trying out sawmill as a window-manager and liking it well. On one of the machines, everything works smoothly. On the other, the mouse works perfectly well for window operations, but I have no menus. Clicking the mouse on the background image produces no output and the following error-message (visible after the X server is killed with Ctl-Alt-Delete): File error : Broken pipe , #<process running: /usr/lib/sawmill/0.20.1/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sawmill-menu I haven't been able to figure out what difference between the two boxes causes this differential failure. The one on which menus fail has a custom-compiled version of kernel 2.2.17; the one on which menus work well has a custom-compiled version of kernel 2.2.15pre19. I tried copying: usr/lib/sawmill/0.20.1/i686-pc-linux-gnu/sawmill-menu from the working box to the broken box, but that made no difference whatever. I've tried purging and re-installing both the menu-package and sawmill, but that makes no difference either. I would appreciate any guidance or advice anybody has to offer in working this puzzle out, Jim McCloskey