Hi all,
I'm having the hardest time figuring out the following problem. Any
help, hints, or ideas will be greatly appreciated. I am not on the
Fvwm mailing list so please CC with any responses. I will post a
followup if there is any interest. Will answer Python, Mailman, or CC
Mode question for food (or help :-).
My system: Solaris 2.6 (w/ all recent patches), Open Windows 3.6 X
server (also w/ all recent patches). I have been using Fvwm 2.0.46
since it came out, and love it. I tried the following with Fvwm 2.2
but that did not seem to fix my problem.
I have just started using CodeWarrior Pro4 for Solaris. This is a
commercial Java IDE. I suspect that this was ported from a Mac using
some kind of porting tool. The GUI looks quite Mac-like in places;
file name separators are `:' in some places too.
When I have a CodeWarrior window open, and I try to resize it using
the `Resize' builtin function, the outer Fvwm frame resizes just fine,
however the contents of the window don't repaint to fill the new
borders[*]. No matter what I try, no matter what style settings I
use, or options I set, I can never get the contents to fill the frame.
It's almost as if some window manager event is not getting propagated
to the app -- it doesn't know it's been resized and so it just sits
there.
Naturally, I complained to Metrowerks (CodeWarrior's vendor). They
said Fvwm is not a supported window manager at this time -- they only
support CDE. So, I tried to be a good little Solaris user, and
started up a vanilla stock CDE window system, fresh from dtlogin.
Besides CDE (and I assume dtwm) being completely horrible, I tried to
resize my CW windows, and sure enough, it worked! I enlarge the
frame, the app repaints to fill the new real-estate.
I figured maybe my Fvwm is just too old, so I downloaded Fvwm 2.2.
Unfortunately, it still doesn't cause the resize.
What magic is CDE/dtwm doing that Fvwm is missing??? Is there some
option, variable, style (or even #define in the code :-) I can twiddle
to get this to work. Please don't make me use CDE!
Thanks,
-Barry
[*] I can provide screenshots if that helps, but I didn't want to send
huge pictures in this message.
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Received on Fri Mar 26 1999 - 18:46:10 GMT