[609] in Athena User Interface
Re: Try this one on for size.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jan 11 14:31:14 2001
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:31:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@mit.edu>
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I like that guess. I'll take that as a working hypothesis :)
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Richard Tibbetts wrote:
> On 1/11 you wrote:
> > I will give a cookie to anyone who has a decent guess why such a trifling
> > change in .startup.X could possibly affect panel behavior in such big
> > ways.
>
> I expect the problem is this: There is a race condition between
> sawfish and panel. Panel needs to start up enough before sawfish so
> that sawfish can notice that it is running under gnome. If it doesn't
> notice, it fails to play nice with things like the task list and
> panel. By speeding up your login, you exposed this race condition.
>
> I think Greg is working on a way to put sawfish in Gnome mode by default.
>
> tibbetts
>
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