On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:32:50PM +0100, Philipp Frank wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm not sure if this is a fvwm issue, but... Well, I've got gkrellm
> running, and it went pretty fine until my upgrade to fvwm 2.5.8
> (that's why I guess it's an fvwm issue). What happens is that the
> gkrellm window would show up for 1/10 of a second or so and
> vanish. The process is still running, but I can't see the
> window. There is an X message saying
>
> _cdim: --- shaped window 0x0814a3a0 'gkrellm'
That's just a debug message. You problem has nothing to do with
the window being shaped.
gkrellm has the nasty habit of storing its window position between
to starts. Once the window appears, gkrellm moves it to some
off-page location. That usually happens if you kill the window
while you are viewing a dfifferent page. For example, if the
window is at +0+0 on the top left page, and you are viewing page
(1 0), then kill gkrellm, it's real position on the display is
+<-display width>+0. When you start the application next time, it
moves itself to the left of the actual screen.
You should disable this "feature" in gkrellm (right click on the
gkrellm title, the disable "Remember screen location ...".
> on the console where I started X. I can find something about shaped
> windows in fvwm on the net, but nothing seems to mention my
> problem. Anybody knows what's going on? I'd be grateful for any
> hint. My system has X 4.3.0, fvwm 2.5.8, kernel 2.4.23-pre5...
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Mon Dec 08 2003 - 03:28:56 GMT