Re: FVWM: fvwm doesn't permit iconic start of netscape

From: Ian Hutchinson <hutch_at_psfc.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 16:43:36 -0400 (EDT)

The following demonstrates that with no config, and with a direct run of
the netscape 4.79 executable, netscape -iconic does not start up iconized.

However, I did not try
> Style Navigator StartIconic

I tried
> Style netscape StartIconic
which did not work.

[hutch_at_ihutch hutch]$ fvwm -r -f no-config&
[1] 13729
[hutch_at_ihutch hutch]$ [FVWM][Read]: <<ERROR>> file 'no-config' not found
in /home/hutch/.fvwm or /usr/share/fvwm

[hutch_at_ihutch hutch]$ ls -l `which netscape`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Sep 17 14:54
/usr/local/bin/netscape -> /usr/local/netscape/netscape
[hutch_at_ihutch hutch]$ ls /usr/local/netscape/netscape -l
-r-xr-xr-x 1 8482 wheel 13800136 Oct 17 2001
/usr/local/netscape/netscape
[hutch_at_ihutch hutch]$ netscape -iconic


        Ian Hutchinson
        http://www.psfc.mit.edu/people/hutch/


On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:

> On 21 Sep 2003 15:43:41 -0400, Ian Hutchinson wrote:
> >
> > netscape -iconic
> >
> > works fine under metacity (for example) but not fvwm (using 4.79 version
> > of netscape for speed reasons under Red Hat Linux 8.0).
> >
> > Under fvwm [fvwm 2.5.7 compiled on May 30 2003 at 20:29:15
> > with support for: ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, PNG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text,
> > Xinerama, XRender, XFT, NLS] the netscape always pops open its first
> > window. It looks as if it tries to start iconic but then for some reason
> > deiconifies straight away.
> >
> > I read that the fvwm Inconic setting does not work for netscape, but that
> > netscape -iconic does. I have tried all combinations and none works.
> >
> > Anyone have a fix?
>
> With fvwm-2.5.8 (from cvs) and Netscape 3, "netscape -iconic" works
> without problems. It is started iconic.
>
> If you start fvwm without any configuration, like "fvwm -f no-config",
> does "netscape -iconic" work? f it does not work, it is possible that you
> run some netscape wrapper script that discards its arguments.
>
> Alternativelly, it is possible to start any netscape iconic by adding:
>
> Style Navigator StartIconic
>
> But it causes all new subwindows to be started iconified too.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
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