* If you do not get a drop-down menu when you click on a window's menu button, can't change the number of workspaces, and/or gnome-control-center says "the applet encountered an error" when you try to configure sawfish, it means that you have versions of sawfish and rep (and/or rep-gtk[[-gnome]?) that don't like each other. For example, you have sawfish from debian woody (stable) but a rep from debian testing or unstable, even though these packages don't have an official conflict. Other symptoms include lines like "No such file or directory, sawfish/client" from the command line or in your .xsession-errors file. 

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 !SSH/OpenSSH/scp(1) etc 

 * If you get an error "no matching comp found: client zlib server none" then what this means is that you tried to use compression but the ssh server refused. This might be because you had the "-C" option on the command line, or you have "Compression" in your ~/.ssh_options file. This might mean that there are different versions of ssh installed on the two machines, or different versions of libssl. Not trying to use compression will work around this. 

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