[5661] in testers
Re: Issues with athena 9.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jul 24 01:34:24 2003
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:34:20 -0400
Message-Id: <200307240534.h6O5YKIe024863@error-messages.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Victor Chudnovsky <vchudnov@MIT.EDU>
CC: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <1058721321.1323.2168.camel@chudnovsky.homelinux.net>
As promised, I'm looking into the workspace issues you described in
your bug report.
> I have shortcut keys set up to switch among workspaces.
How are these set up? I tried setting up some sawfish global key
bindings for "Previous Workspace" and "Next Workspace" and couldn't
produce any strange behavior.
I'm also having trouble understanding your description of what's going
wrong.
> When this happens, if I move past the first or last workspace the
> Workspace Switcher seems to add new blank workspaces and move me to
> them...
There is an option to make that happen, but it's not on by default,
and it's not even user-configurable (you have to edit .sawfish/rc to
turn it on), so it's not behavior one should normally see.
> If I have the Worspace Switcher set to one row only, the only way I
> can edge flip to the next workspace is by moving the mouse pointer
> past the top or bottom of the screen.
This should be fixed in the next patch release. Apparently, to work
around a bug in a GNOME library (libwnck), the sawfish lisp code would
switch the number of rows and columns in the workspace grid. But it
wasn't a very good workaround; when the libwnck bug was fixed, the
workaround reintroduced the bug.
