newbie: wm troubles

[Chris Kacoroski]

I am running the testing distribution of debian and everything works 
fine.  You may want to try it.

ski

Egon Eckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to switch to xfce to get rid of the Gnome bloat. :)
> 
> Everything went really fine and I started enjoying the new-and-shiny
> fast-and-usable desktop...  Unfortunately, I couldn't resolve this:
> window maximizing in xfwm4 hides the panel.
> 
> When trying sawfish instead (which has the maximize-fill-toggle
> functions, that do not hide other windows, including the panel), I was
> unable to get workspace switching right.  Clicking in the switcher did
> select the workspace, but also did somehow "move" all windows based on
> the exact pixel-position of the click, as if I would move the (0,0)
> origin of the desktop with the click.
> 
> The OS is i386 Debian Linux (Sarge) with many xfce4-*.deb installed,
> versions 4.0.5-1 to 4.0.6-1 (xfwm4 is 4.0.5-1).
> 
> Any helpful ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 

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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski at comcast.net, 435-681-0092