[611] in Athena User Interface
Re: Try this one on for size.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Jan 11 15:03:42 2001
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:03:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: <yak@mit.edu>
cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@mit.edu>, <aui@mit.edu>
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Is this something a user can control via settings? Where is it determined
which mode sawfish will start in?
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 yak@MIT.EDU wrote:
> > 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
>
