On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:32:24PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I noticed a problem in the current version of fvwm (2.4.16 on Debian testing)
> that affects xterm, and am curious if you have some idea how to analyze it. If
> I type
> resize -s 40 80
> in xterm, it does an XtMakeResizeRequest for the corresponding number of
> pixels. Immediately after, X calls the resize function of the xterm vt100
> widget with 40x80 as the pixel size of the window. That repeats, and I get a
> 3x13 window as a result.
xterm is doing some non-standard things with its geometry that can
confuse some versions of fvwm. Try fvwm-2.5.7.
> If I run ltrace on fvwm, it slows things down enough that everything works as
> expected - I get a 40x80 character-sized window. Building 2.4.16 from source,
> I get the same results, so it's not the Debian package.
>
> This is code that I've been using as-is on different window managers for
> several years, of course, including older versions of fvwm...
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Sat Sep 20 2003 - 12:09:08 BST