Stickiness (or lack thereof)

Window sizes are too large

Stickness

I have an occasional problem where I will set sticky attribute on a window, but instead of becoming
sticky, I get a beep and no stickiness.  The only way I have found to resolve this is to logout of my
x-session and log back in.  Given that I work in Technical Support and must have all my various
support applications up and running for most of my working day, logging out and back in isn't always
an option.  I can live without stickiness, but I'd rather not have to.

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Workspace names

Hi,

Is it possible to get Sawfish (with Gnome) to display workspace names on the
screen, sorta like WindowMaker does by default? Sorry if this has been asked
before, but I can't seem to google any information about this. Thanks :)

- Adam

Re: Workspace names

agorski <at> engin.umich.edu (2002-02-08 at 0813.52 -0500):
> Is it possible to get Sawfish (with Gnome) to display workspace names on the
> screen, sorta like WindowMaker does by default? Sorry if this has been asked
> before, but I can't seem to google any information about this. Thanks :)

Yes, I use ws-num.jl for that, download from:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/4063/grimoire.html

Copy it to the dir where sawfish stores the jl files and in
.sawfish/rc put something like:

(require 'ws-num)
(setq workspace-names '("First" "Second" "Third"))

GSR

Re: Stickiness (or lack thereof)

James.P.Walker <at> sun.com (2002-02-08 at 0344.49 -0500):
> I have an occasional problem where I will set sticky attribute on a
> window, but instead of becoming sticky, I get a beep and no
> stickiness.  The only way I have found to resolve this is to logout

You should check the logs (gnome, X, whatever) cos when something
beeps normally a report is printed too, and that would help to
discover what is going on.

GSR

Re: Alt+Tab hangup

Dave Lawrence writes:
|Suspicious symptom #2: telnet'ing to the machine and 'kill
|<sawfish-pid>' unfreezes the machine (but doesn't kill sawfish)

Could you do kill -USR1 instead next time it happens? That should make
sawfish print its current backtrace to stderr

	John

Re: small bug regarding selection of drop-down menus

Robert W. Anderson writes:
|Now, customize and add a binding.  Select "Grab" and click mouse-1
|somewhere in the root window.  (In the bindings for the root window).
|Bind this event to popup the Windows list.
|
|Then go and click mouse-1.  It will bring up the windows list, *but
|the first entry in that menu is not only unselected, but unselectable
|at first*.  You must move the mouse pointer away, to another entry,
|until it highlights, and only then can you bring it back to the first
|entry and highlight and select it."

This works fine for me. It sounds like something gtk might affect, so
it may be worth trying a newer gtk (I have 1.2.10)

	John

evolution does not play well with sawfish

I've just started using evolution and I'm noticing two problems with its
interaction with sawfish.

1)	When I try to send/receive mail, but there is no mail waiting, the
dialog pops up and immediately pops down. Most times this works, but
occasionally sawfish crashes. The output from sawfish is appended. I'm
guessing that sawfish is trying to do something to a window which has
already gone. (I remember seeing something similar when netscape was
trying to save a small file, but I've long since stopped using
netscape).

2) I use enter-exit focus. If I have evolution open, with a
gnome-terminal on either side, and try to move focus from one terminal
to the other quickly, evolution grabs the focus even if the mouse ends
up over the terminal. If I move more slowly (so that evolution is
visibly focused before I move to the other terminal) then everything
works as expected. This doesn't happen if I do the same thing with
galeon.

Anyone else seen these, have workarounds?

Thanks,

Chris

Global Key

Hi,

I need to customize Sawfish for a public application.
In certain case, i need to exectute a bash script on any event.

I pass this line to the sawfish-client :

(custom-set-keymap (quote global-keymap) (quote (keymap
((run-shell-command "my command") . "Any-TAB") )))

But i dont want to write this line for each key. Is there something like
"Any" that i can put instade of TAB? 
I dont found information about this in 'info sawfish'

THX.

PS : sorry for my english, im  french.