Re: Sawfish 1.5.3 didn't work on ubuntu 12.10

On Saturday 03 November 2012 16:49:30 xfq wrote:
> 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?

of course, there's also a guide for compiling from GIT:
http://sawfish.wikia.com/wiki/Compilation_from_GIT

Regards,
Chris

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