<snip>
I am battling to find a way to configure the size/appearance of
windows in the GNOME desktop, because it often happens that
I will start a program (For example, the K3B cd burner config
window) and the window is too darned huge for me to actually
get to the bottom where the 'forward', 'back', 'OK', 'cancel'
etc. buttons are. What's more, in many cases I can't even
resize the menu windows manually.
</snip>
Hmm... I think this is because your screen resolution is too small. Is that
the case? YOu're using 800x600?? I tend to get this problem with my old
laptop as well. nothing much I can do about it.. I guess it's cause the
windows size is somehow 'fixed'
<snip>
I tried upgrading my sawfish package (version 1.2-5)
and got a tarball package for sawfish-1.3. I ran
./configure --enable-capplet , make all , make install in the
unpacked sawfish directory, according to the README instructions.
When running an rpm -qa | grep -i sawfish I notice that the system
still shows version 1.2-5 in the rpmdatabase. How do I
</snip>
Er.. you installed the tarball package and you did a ./configure.. so.. My
guess is your tried installing the source tarball and not the rpm package..
Am I right? If that is the case, then of course it will not show up. Because
the rpm will only update the Rpm
database.
<snip>
(With source RPM's, one could use rpmbuild to achieve this, but I
am not sure how to get it to work with tarballs)
</snip>
well, depending on whether the developer made a .spec file. if there is,
then you can do a rpmbuild -ta (i forgot the switch) sawfish.tar.gz and
it'll be made into a rpm.
BTW, can you tell me your success stories with k3b??? Does it work only in
KDE?? Do you have to install KDE to use it?? I use Gnome.. possible to use
k3b?? It looks nice.. What's the end-user experience?? Good like Nero or
Feurio??
Cheers, .^.
Mun Heng, Ow /V\
H/M Engineering /( )\
Western Digital M'sia ^^-^^
DID : 03-7870 5168 The Linux Advocate
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Dale [mailto:redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 6:00 PM
To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Sawfish Windows manager + tarballs
Hi all,
I am running Red Hat Linux 9 on an AMD athlon 1.2 Ghz.
I have two questions:
1) I am battling to find a way to configure the size/appearance of
windows in the GNOME desktop, because it often happens that
I will start a program (For example, the K3B cd burner config
window) and the window is too darned huge for me to actually
get to the bottom where the 'forward', 'back', 'OK', 'cancel'
etc. buttons are. What's more, in many cases I can't even
resize the menu windows manually.
I tried to use the sawfish Windows manager, in
'Preferences --> more preferences --> sawfish windows manager'
[ GNOME desktop ]. However, when I try to open any of the programs
like Window placement or Window appearance, nothing happens.
I access the same set of programs from the 'start here' icon on the
desktop, and the same thing - I try to run the application and
nothing happens.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?
2) Based on 1), I tried upgrading my sawfish package (version 1.2-5)
and got a tarball package for sawfish-1.3. I ran
./configure --enable-capplet , make all , make install in the
unpacked sawfish directory, according to the README instructions.
When running an rpm -qa | grep -i sawfish I notice that the system
still shows version 1.2-5 in the rpmdatabase. How do I install in
such a way that the system will also update its RPM database?
(With source RPM's, one could use rpmbuild to achieve this, but I
am not sure how to get it to work with tarballs)
Thanks a stack,
Jason
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