On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Dan Espen wrote:
> "Czarina Caro L. Tablante 1995-24644" <ctablant_at_eee.upd.edu.ph> writes:
> > My XWindows has to be restarted just to get my windows in their right
> > positions. the only applications opened upon startup are netscape and
> > 3 sxpm windows (to act as graphical overlays to parts of netscape
> > that i DONT want the user to be able to click on). Upon first startup
> > of Xwindows, or after i changed something in my .xinitrc, the xpms
> > are on the wrong positions! After killing X and starting it again
> > (there are times i've had to do it twice or thrice), the xpm's (using
> > sxpm's) are in the right places already. i've read that fvwm and sxpm
> > dont work together well, and the solution was to add "sleep
> > <seconds>" after each call to sxpm in the .xinitrc file. i did that,
> > and that's still how my windows look. this is surely fvwm's problem,
> > but i have no idea how to solve it. does anybody know what i can do
> > about this?
>
> You should always mention version numbers.
>
> I looked at sxpm in the xpm package version 3.4j.
>
> sxpm.c reads the geometry argument, but doesn't set x/y coordinates.
> The problem with geometry is in sxpm, not fvwm.
> It might not be hard to fix sxpm.
>
> If you mention the version of fvwm you are using, it might be possible
> to make fvwm move the window to the location you want after its
> created.
oops sorry.. i use fvwm 2.2.4 and in my .xinitrc, this is how i call
the sxpm windows:
sxpm -geometry +22+0 /home/czarina/pet.xpm &
when i restart XWindows, the sxpms are in their correct positions
already, but never on startup.
Thanks! :)
C
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Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 22:29:30 BST