Re: Sawfish 1.5.3 didn't work on ubuntu 12.10

On 11/03/2012 07:01 PM, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> 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
>
Do I have to hybridize the system through apt-pinning?

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