Mark Scott said:
> A user of mine noticed a bug in FVWM 2.045. He says if he fires up some
> clients in his .xsession before starting fvwm (ie: xbiff, couple of xterms
> & etc) that very often, the "Style" parameters are not properly processed
> for one of the clients (usually xbiff, but appears to be random or system
> timing related). When it happens to xbiff, the window title & handles are
> drawn even though the Style setting turns them off. If he restarts fvwm,
> all windows are correctly decorated when they are reparented. This is happening
> on a fast Sparc (Ultra-2 200Mhz), so that may also be bringing out a latent
> timing bug. Any ideas?
Simple fix - start the apps from inside fvwm.
A nice way to do this is to simply source an external file (.startup
or similar) in the init-function. Works fine for people who other-
wise do not want to mess with fvwm.
As to why this behaviour occurs - dunno. :-)
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Email: D.Kennedy_at_Queens-Belfast.ac.uk | URL: http://star.pst.qub.ac.uk/~dcjk/
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Received on Mon Jun 02 1997 - 17:16:27 BST