Re: Sawfish 1.5.3 didn't work on ubuntu 12.10

On 11/03/2012 05:42 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> On Saturday 03 November 2012 09:13:00 xfq wrote:
>> I installed Sawfish(with sudo apt-get install sawfish) but it's not
>> working.  All I see when I start X is the default stipple background: no
>> programs, no menus, no pager.  I've tried middle-click and clicking both
>> buttons simultaneously, but nothing happened.
>>
>> I've already read the Sawfish FAQ and user guide, and I've already
>> searched the Web, but I still cannot solve this problem.  I have also
>> tried to change a mouse, but it didn't make sense.
>>
>> English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors.  Thanks
>> for your consideration.
>
> Sawfish packages in Ubuntu are ancient (1.5.3, while 1.9.1 is the latest
> stable version). It might aswell be that they are packaging wrong version of
> rep-gtk with it (Debian once had this problem).
>
> The best choice is to download the sources and install on your own, see:
> http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Compilation_from_source
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
Can I compile it from GIT?

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