[Scribus] small 0.9.11.1 problem

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At Sun, 22 Jun 2003 20:46:14 +0200 , Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef at pandora.be> wrote: 

>On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:42:58 +0200
>Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef at pandora.be> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 06:27:16 -0400
>> Patrick <magicpage91 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 12:03:38 +0200
>> > Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef at pandora.be> wrote:
>> > 
>> > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 10:41:51 +0200
>> > > Franz Schmid <Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de> wrote:
>> > (snip)
>> > > > One Question: did you install RH 9.0 from Scratch or did you an
>> > > > Update from an older Version with an already installed
>> > > > Scribus-0.9.10 ?
>> > > 
>> > > I installed the whole system from scratch and installed as well
>> > > gnome as kde, because I wanted to use gnome but I knew I'd need
>> > > kde-devel for scribus. So I really can't see why it wouldn't work
>> > > under gnome. I don't think it's really a redhat 9 issue, but a gnome
>> > > version issue
>> > > 
>> > > Franky
>> > > 
>> > =========================
>> > 
>> > Have you recently updated Gnome with Ximian Desktop 2 as well, Franky?
>> > 
>> > From what I have seen of late and I don't know if either you or Peter
>> > are running RH 9 Gnome2 out of the box, but the new XD2
>> > installation/update seems to be breaking some KDE programs/functions.
>> > 
>> > That might be the difference or not, I am not sure, just mentioning
>> > it.
>> 
>> Hi Patrick,
>> 
>> I didn't update gnome with the Ximian Desktop 2, just the standard
>> redhat 9 updates (and I don't think they even have any updates for
>> gnome, but I do the updates automatically, so I don't really know)
>
>ok, I tested it in kde and it works, but it seems that the window
>boundings there aren't perfect as well: the boundings seem to become
>slightly overwritten by the content of the window, just like if the inner
>window is moved up just a bit too much (not quite correctly positioned) so
>the result is that for example the "X" for closing the window is not
>completely visible (only 98%) but you have to look closely to it to see it
>(I was really observing the boudings so I discovered this, and when
>comparing to the main scribus window I really saw the difference)
>This might result that under gnome the boundings completely don't show ...


Franky, This is a metacity bug. Metacity is the window manager which is included in RH 8 and 9 with Gnome. The replaced sawfish which was in RH 7.x. 

Franz sent me a possible workaround and I have tested and confirmed the solution on a brand new yesterday RH 9 install.

When I am home this evening, I will write up a howto to fix this. 

Hope that helps to solve the mystery.

Peter