Common Issues
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The guideline followed in the development of Sawfish is the window manager specifications that is developed by freedesktop.org. For the most X11 client programs there are no changes, but for a minority changes are required.
[edit] Window Grid and KDE's kicker
The minipager applet of KDE as well as the KPager know nothing about _NET_WM_LAYOUT, a property of the X Root window that must be set by the Pager to hint the visual layout of the workspaces to the window manager. To get a correct window grid in Sawfish, one has to override the number of workspaces per row variable in rc
(require 'sawfish.wm.ext.workspace-grid) (setq override-num-workspace-rows <numbers-of-workspaces-horizontally>)
[edit] Firefox focus issues
A GTK2 bug causes focus problems with Mozilla. See Gnome bug 158038 and 109245. Issues are resolved in GTK Release 2.6.10.
[edit] Window History
To add window-history back to sawfish 1.3, add (require 'sawfish.wm.ext.window-history) to your sawfish.rc file, and restart sawfish.
[edit] Viewports
Viewports were removed from Sawfish sometime after 1.0.1, we are looking to add them back. If you have a patch - submit it! Otherwise see missing patches section.
[edit] Sawfish Bugs
Sawfish bugs are tracked at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
