Re: [Sawfish] Bug view info file

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <nano@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

regarding c) [sawfish.wm.ext.wallpaper]:

try latest GIT, I made a few more test cases and all bugs should be 
squashed now in the wallpaper-setter.

Regards,
Chris

On 04.09.2014 21:16, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a) x-terminal-emulator is the default for xterm-program, which you can
> change in SawfishConfig > Misc > External Applications.
>
> There are two places you can access the info file:
>
>
> aa) SawfishConfig: with SawfishConfig it is not possible to access
> xterm-program setting from Sawfish. Thus x-terminal-emulator is
> hardcoded in SawfishConfig. I might change it to xterm for better
> non-Debian-compat.
>
> (Why the funk don't those non-Debian-Distros use alternatives aswell?
> this is pretty useful and allows generic system calls regardless of the
> installed software. Well... that would be to easy and so not fragmented)
>
> bb) Sawfish Root Menu > Help. This will use whatever xterm-program is.
>
> b) if no browser opens that means that the default browser-program
> (x-www-browser) is not available, adjust aswell in SawfishConfig > Misc
>  > External Applications.
>
> See Screenshot for xterm-program and browser-program adjustment.
>
> c) Wallpaper Setter. This is something completely different. This is not
> an issue of external applications, it's an issue with the widget. It's
> not really robust an error-tolerant. Please tell me your values for the
> following defcustoms (so I can test and fix the issue):
>
> init-wallpaper (bool)
> root-wallpaper (string)
> wallpaper-setter (string)
> wallpaper-setter-args (string)
> set-wallpaper-gnome2 (bool)
> set-wallpaper-xfce4 (bool)
> wallpaper-display-type (symbol)
>
> d) use the GitHub bug tracker over at github.com/SawfishWM/sawfish/issues
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> On 04.09.2014 20:54, Stefan Husmann wrote:
> > Am 31.08.2014 um 11:16 schrieb fuchur:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > If i start sawfish-config from xterm and try to "view info file" i got:
> > >
> > > sh: x-terminal-emulator: command not found
> > >
> > > in the xterm. My dist don't have x-terminal-emulator.
> > Hello,
> >
> > I can confirm this and the background image issue you reported. I
> > suspect the interface to the external programs is not working in
> > general. Can you test if the accessing the sawfish wiki coming from
> > "help" -> "sawfish-info" -> "sawfish wiki" works for you? I think it
> > should open a browser with "http://wikia.sawfish.com";, but for me it
> > does not.
> >
> > I am under Arch Linux with sawfish 1.11 from git.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> > P.S. is there a bug tracker to report such things?

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