From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010809 Description of problem: When trying to move or resize windows using the mouse a continuous series of beeps comes from the speaker and nothing else happens. Also, the mouse does not "stick" to the spot I grab. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Log in (I use GDM to start a gnome session using the sawfisk WM) 2.Open a window 3.Try to move it Additional info: If I log in as root using the GDM nothing of the sort happens. Also, when I tried removing all my .gnome* .sawfish and .gtkrc files (I suspected they might be corrupted), I could move my windows, but I couldn't resize them. Possibly related item: When I try to change the sawfish appearance by choosing the menu item from the gnome menu or by clicking the middle button on the desktop, the window comes up, but just hangs. It can't even be removed. However, choosing sawfish appearance from the Gnome configuration tool works fine.
Sawfish is no doubt spewing Lisp errors to ~/.xsession-errors - what are those errors?
Created attachment 29374 [details] The .xsession-errors file
OK, something is really screwed - the X server is not providing the "fixed" font. Several apps other than sawfish seem to be complaining about that. Does "xlsfonts | grep fixed" show the line "fixed"?
We (Red Hat) should try to fix this before next release.
The fixed font error messages may have occured when I tried to run /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 this morning (my X dies every night due to a well known Mach-64+SMP+XFree86 bug, so I was starting to get a bit desperate). Anyway, when I do the "xlsfonts | grep fixed" I get two lines containing the word fixed.
.xsession-errors should be restarted (cleared out) each time you log in. What are the two lines with "fixed"? There's no line with just plain "fixed"? (My test machine has 1009 lines with "fixed")
It looks like this may be a duplicate of http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51033
Testing -- reporter says they can't post an update to this bug.
I was probably unclear: When running "xlsfonts | grep fixed " I got two lines containg just the word fixed, but there were 510 lines all in all.
does "xlsfonts -fn -*-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" list any fonts? This the Sawfish default font with a recent patch. If it doesn't list any fonts, that would explain the problem, but I'm not sure why it wouldn't be listing any fonts.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 54491 ***