On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 12:11:10PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:59:54PM -0500, dane_at_mk.telcordia.com wrote:
> > "Jan T. Kim" <kim_at_mpiz-koeln.mpg.de> writes:
> > > recently, I installed fvwm 2.2.4 on a Compaq (formerly DEC) Alpha
> > > workstation running OSF1 V4.0e. All works well -- the system looks &
> > > feels like my Linux box... ;-) except one little quirk: When I
> > > display a HTML source window with netscape communicator 4.7, the
> > > window appears is not managed by FVWM at all after initial placement.
> > > It receives no decorations, thus I cannot move / raise / lower /
> > > iconify etc. the window using the standard mouse operations. The
> > > window can be iconized with FvwmIconMan, though, and it can be
> > > deleted by invoking FVWM's delete function via a popup menu.
> That you can iconify the window proves that the window is indeed
> managed.
True -- I must admit that I didn't choose the wording in the subject
100% accurately. Also, the initial placement interaction indicates
management, of course.
> > I'm not sure what you mean by a "HTML Source window",
>
> I guess he means the window you get with 'View page source'
> entry from the right mouse button menu over a html window.
Yep.
> You can check if the window is transient with the FvwmIdent module.
> (simply start it, select the window and look for the line
> 'Transient: Yes/No').
No, it's not the transient window handling, described in the FAQ. The
"Find" dialog box receives standard decorations.
> > If its just a case of all Netscape windows lacking decoration,
> > then I would expect something like:
> >
> > Style "Netscape*" NoTitle, HandleWidth 0
No, it wasn't this -- I found the line that causes the trouble:
Style "*" MWMFunctions, MWMDecor, HintOverride
After commenting this out, the "View Source" window of netscape
receives normal decorations. With a little more experimentation, I
found out that the "MWMDecor" style option is responsible for the
problem. As I don't know about MWM and its particular decoration
behaviour, I still don't fully understand why the HTML source window
of all netscape windows elicits this effect. Perhaps, there's
something unclean in the netscape code that causes uninitialized
garbage to be passed as window manager flag arrays...?
I must admit that I "inherited" the trouble making line from the system
default fvwm2 startup file that came with my Linux distribution, and I
just put this ~/.fvwm2rc file (which I modified quite extensively, yet
without looking at all the "inherited" stuff in detail) from the Linux
box mentioned above to the Alpha workstation.
Thanks to all who replied.
Greetinx, Jan
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Received on Tue Feb 29 2000 - 07:57:37 GMT