more on debian upgrade
Things seem to be back in a usable state now. I gave up on Gnome's attempts to translate the gnome 1 config to a gnome 2 one and started from scratch. Sawfish seems to have mostly coped though one or two things like outline window resizing got lost (and seem to have disappeared from the point-and-drool UI too, but setq is my friend). Gnome 2 so far seems clunkier than gnome 1 which makes me wonder what they think the point is, but still.