Re: FVWM: Help! Windows keep dying on me...

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 18:09:36 -0500

Ryan Daly <daly_at_ctcnet.net> writes:
> Dan Espen wrote:
> > As I remember, when I did some testing with this, I was using
> > a virtual X environment so RM6 was running by itself.
> > One "quirk" is that I would get the problem when the virtual X
> > environment was set up with
> > $DISPLAY set to X:0 and it would work fine with $DISPLAY as X:1.
> >
> > I think that just illustrates that something random is going on.
> > None of this helps me, or anyone else that followed along with
> > the debugging to figure out what was going on.
>
> Just checked things on :1. I get the same results. One strange thing,
> though. Check out the following sequences...
>
> * Started RM6
> Opened "Status"
> Moved mouse over "Select Module" button and received the balloon help.
> Closed RM6
>
> * Started VMWare
> Started RM6
> Opened "Status"
> Moved mouse over "Select Module" button and "Status" window died.
> Closed RM6
> Closed VMWare
>
> * Started RM6
> Opened "Status"
> Moved mouse over "Select Module" button and received the balloon help.
> Opened VMWare
> Moved mouse over "Select Module" button and received the balloon help.
> Opened second "Status" window
> Moved mouse over "Select Module" in "Status (2)" and "Status (2)" died.
> Moved mouse over "Select Module" in "Status" and received the balloon
> help.
>
> Whatever random thing is going on seems to be activated by the problem
> window, in this case VMWare, and doesn't seem to affect already running
> windows.
>
> Would you want me try to capture some debugging information while going
> through this sequence? Would that help at all?

No, I already have
all the traces that it is possible to produce. Without the source
code to the application, I can't deduce why the application decides
it is going to close itself.

You PAID for support for the application you are running.
Get them to do some work on this.

-- 
Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
Received on Sat Nov 01 2003 - 17:13:50 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Mon Aug 29 2016 - 19:37:55 BST