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Selecting Sawfish in the DM will give you exactly that, Sawfish. A pure Sawfish
session. YOu ned to select the "Custom" session, that's the one which loads
from .xinitrc.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 03:09:14PM -0700, greg heil wrote:
> i installed sawfish in xubuntu 1204 with the "software Center" (this
> only has sawfish 1:1.5.3-2build1)
>
> Then set the .xinitrc as suggested by Robert to:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> xscreensaver -no-splash &
> sawfish &
> exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch xfce4-session
>
> i the put the "hello world app suggested by Chris in
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2011-March/msg00039.html
>
> to wit:
>
> (defvar-setq top-left-corner-function
> (lambda () (display-message "hello world")))
>
> But when i chose sawfish in my logon i got just a background pic ...
> no key combo did anything and the "hello world" app did not perform.
>
> Not even Alt-F1 worked. i had to do a power cycle to get the machines
> attention back.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> greg
> ~krsnadas.org
>
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