[610] in Athena User Interface
Re: Try this one on for size.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yak@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 11 14:58:22 2001
From: yak@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:58:18 -0500
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
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In-Reply-To: <200101111854.NAA16921@multics.mit.edu>; from tibbetts@MIT.EDU on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 01:54:20PM -0500
> 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 ran into this a long time ago. My solution was to always put sawfish
into gnome mode, though it looks like that didn't get propagated
properly.
yak
