Moving to Sawfish and latest xChat
This morning I found out something that I hadn't expected to see... that I was probably running both Sawfish and Enlightenment as window managers. I know think that my problems a few days ago with the theme selection were related to this. What I first noticed is that GNOME 1.4 wants to use Sawfish, and that I had Enlightenment as the default in GNOME. So I switched to Sawfish as the default and hopefully things will go much better now. There isn't a significant difference in the window managers - from what I see, but the integration with GNOME certainly tips the scale from my old favorite Enlightenment to Sawfish.
I also was reading a lot in the newsgroups and thought I might be able to catch some reasonably intelligent conversation about SGI and their future. But alas, when I went to a few intelligent-sounding rooms I was greated by the same banter that I've heard time and again in chat rooms. It's too bad, too. Because while I have time to do this, and interesting things to talk about, I can't find an interesting person to talk to. Oh well...
While I was messing around with xchat today I thought I might as well get the latest stable release - 1.6.4 as they are working on 1.7.0 (unstable) now. No biggie, but I think I'll try once more to get them to incorporate my perl fix so that I don't have to hassle with putting it in by hand each time I get the code.