Re: [Sawfish] Sawfish 1.5.3 didn't work on ubuntu 12.10

[xfq <xfq.free@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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