Bug 24128
| Summary: | sawfish startup does not follow documentation | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal> |
| Component: | sawfish | Assignee: | Havoc Pennington <hp> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | jsh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-01-16 21:43:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I use ~/.sawfishrc with the current build (although I think it still will support a ~/.sawmillrc). We do ship with some default settings but all can be nulled with information in ~/.sawfishrc Have you tried creating one to no success? What is the problem specifically? > Have you tried creating one to no success?
Well, yes, hence the bug report.
With the following line in ~/.sawfishrc
(system "xclock -padding 2 -title '' -bg lightgray -geometry 74x74+100+11 &")
nothing happens. After linking ~/.sawfishrc to ~/.sawmillrc an expected
clock face shows up. Yes, I know that I can do that in another way on
a Gnome desktop, although not when I am running "pure sawfish"; this is
just a test example.
Thats a fine test, thanks :) Assigning. The file lisp/sawfish/wm/user.jl loads .sawfishrc as long as no .sawmillrc exists. Putting the xclock line in my .sawfishrc works fine for me (as long as I have no .sawmillrc). Hm, interesting. If I would have both ~/.sawmillrc and ~/.sawfishrc then I would not notice that something does not work. OTOH once ~/.sawmillrc was in place then now ~/.sawfishrc gets loaded as well even if it is there only by itself. In any case grow-pack.jl seems to reference only ~/.sawmillrc. |
Sawfish documentation states (in several places) things like that: 4. How do I add customizations? There are several files controlling this: `~/.sawfishrc' Hand written lisp code, loaded at startup. This is where almost all explicit customization should be done. This does not correspond to reality. Actually checking files in /usr/share/sawfish/0.34/lisp/ one can see that only ~/.sawmillrc is referenced in grow-pack.jl and ~/.sawmillrc actually gets loaded. OTOH sawfish package includes a script like /usr/bin/sawmill-replace.sh Michal michal