Re: FVWM: fvwm error messages

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca>
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 19:00:23 -0230 (NDT)

On Fri, 5 May 2000, Dan Espen wrote:

> I'm afraid I added those messages since I couldn't figure out
> why an XGetGeometry call would fail for a window fvwm is trying
> to add.
>
> I guess fvwm gets notified that a window is being added, but
> the window disappears before fvwm can find out about it.

I think you are right here. The windows I was popping up were
being unmapped so fast that I could not see the error messages
displayed within them. To see what the error messages were
I had to launch a cople dozen from my buttonbox and then chase
their titlebars: clicking on a titlebar is the only way of having
a window that's about to disappear stay on the desktop, hence
displaying the error messages I was looking for,

The following example should produce the error message:

Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/ls; \
   /bin/ls; /bin/cat nonexistentfile"

Thanks,

Neil

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Received on Fri May 05 2000 - 16:33:29 BST

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