[Scribus] small 0.9.11.1 problem

[Peter Linnell]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 14:19, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:48:39 -0400
> tech at atlantictechsolutions.com 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
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> did you get the chance to write this howto you're speaking of here?
> 
> greetz,
> 
> Franky

I am sorry, I got home later than expected. But Franz has already put
the fix in today's CVS. If you download from CVS, it will have the
fixes. 

HTH,
Peter


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