[lug] X/Gnome/Sawmill problem

[Kevin Fenzi]

>>>>> "Glenn" == Glenn Murray <gmurray at Mines.EDU> writes:

Glenn> After Sean's presentation I got inspired to install linux on a
Glenn> laptop.  It's gone pretty well (I even have cardmgr running,
Glenn> though I don't know why) but I'm having, as usual, problems
Glenn> with Gnome and X:

cardmgr is nice. It's the thing that detects pcmcia cards and sets
them up/removes them for you. ;) 

Glenn> I'm trying to run Sawmill as the window manager.  Gnome fires
Glenn> up with twm (I think) and the Control Center shows "Sawmill
Glenn> (Current)", but the "Run Configuration Tool for Sawmill" button
Glenn> does nothing.  I can't run sawmill-ui from the command line
Glenn> because it "can't call sawmill-client" and I can't run
Glenn> sawmill-client from the command line because it "can't open
Glenn> display".

check your ~/.xsession-errors file for clues. 
It might be something that sawmill can't do or create. 

A friend of mine had this exact problem and it turned out that
permissions/ownership were messed up for some /tmp file that sawmill
wanted to use.

kevin
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