Re: FVWM: focus probs w/ closing windows

From: Jose' Manuel Pereira <jmp_at_asterix.ist.utl.pt>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:37:52 +0000 (WET)

"ALR" == Adam L Rice <wysiwyg_at_glympton.airtime.co.uk> writes:
  ALR> (...) I'm just running FvwmAuto as

  ALR> Module FvwmAuto 500

  ALR> So it's not the optional arguments that are the cause of the problem.
  ALR> I'd say it was a bug in FvwmAuto. It should be checking if the window
  ALR> still exists before issuing the command on it.

But that is impossible by design: FvwmAuto is a module, so it runs
asynchronously to fvwm. The X server is also asynchronous to both, so Xlib
won't help.

This was discussed here (several times) in the past, since Rob Nation took
AutoRaise out of fvwm and put it in a module...

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Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 10:41:52 GMT