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Re: linux 8.4.2001010904: sawfish

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat Jan 13 11:18:49 2001

Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:18:44 -0500
Message-Id: <200101131618.LAA05753@nephthys.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: nathanw@mit.edu
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <200101092030.PAA04259@cutter-john.mit.edu>

Please use testers for future bug reports about bleeding-linux.

>   sawfish starts spewing errors like:

>  ** CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf-scale.c: line 216 (gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple): assertion `dest_width > 0' failed.
 
>   when the "Workspaces" counter is increased beyond 10, or "Colums" or
>   "Rows" are increased beyond 20.

This problem appears to have been fixed by the sawfish 0.35 upgrade.

>   Also, the cute diagonally-overlapping display of workspaces goes
>   nuts when "Workspaces" is increased beyond 10, and the visual
>   display of a large virtual screen divided into sections stops
>   scaling properly when "Colums" or "Rows" are increased beyond 11.

This problem has not been fixed, but I don't think it really can be
fixed in a very satisfactory manner, so I'm going to ignore that
problem and close the bug report.

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