RE: FVWM: an application that doesn't like FVWM? Cadence Allegro not supported!

From: Buchs, Kevin J. <buchs.kevin_at_mayo.edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:51:45 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Espen [mailto:dane_at_mk.telcordia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:35 AM

> If any of these hangs or crashes are in fvwm, a stack trace
> might help.

It have never affected fvwm, only the Allegro application.

> > The following two options should be specified in the fvwm
> configuration
> > file to mimic some motif behavior:
> >
> > "MWMDecorHints"
> > "MWMFunctionHints"
>
> Did you try using these options? Did it help?

I tried these and I experienced a crash, so I went to the next step.
 
> If you are using a current beta, it might help if you put this in
> your .fvwm2rc:
> BugOpts ModalityIsEvil

I am on 2.2.4, which was what my System Administrator found prebuilt for
HPUX. He doesn't really want me running fvwm. I did try to build it myself
and got quite hung up on compiler errors with HPs compilers. Does anyone
have a pointer to a site with more recent builds for HPUX?

> This product also runs under Windows. It may be using the Mainsoft
> portability libraries. Search the Fvwm FAQ for "mainsoft". See if
> that advice helps.
>
> Let us know what you find.

Yes, it is the case that Allegro uses Mainsoft. What a shame for an
application originally developed on Unix! Anyway, the suggestion in the
Fvwm FAQ was helpful. I spent some time with the Mainsoft pages. They
don't really want to support Unix it seems, which is rather strange.
Anyway, they suggest with reluctance defining the environment variable:

            setenv MWWM allwm

This I did and have not experienced crashing since. I still do experience
the placement of the application window with the title bar off screen. I
did try a variety of style options (DumbPlacement, ActivePlacement,
Random...) to no avail.

Thanks for your help!

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