[Scribus] small 0.9.11.1 problem

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

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