On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 06:21:53PM -0600, Shawn Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:48:04PM +0200, Felix Engel wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > to start off with some praise: xine is brilliant software and it works great
> > for me - so is fvwm2 ;)
> >
> > However - these two don't work together. Whenever I start xine, it exits
> > as soon as it begins playing a Movie. With any other wm (I've tried a lot
> > of them, including old versions of fvwm2) it works just fine. And that only
> > happens when playing back via XFree4's XV-extension.
> >
> > My machine is a P-III 450, 256M RAM, Matrox G200
> > XFree4.0.1, fvwm-2.3.3{0,2}, xine-0.4.{01,2} (I've tested both).
> > I'm running GNOME on a Mandrake-7.2 Distribution.
> >
> > I've had a look into the source, however I don't know about X-Programming, so
> > I couldn't even track the problem down to either fvwm or xine, so I posted
> > this on both lists.
> > I have added the xine output, and if that helps I have the output produced
> > by strace online at
> > http://gargamel.weh.rwth-aachen.de/xine/DestroyNotify.strace
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > Felix
> >
>
> xine used to work properly with fvwm-2.3.25, Something broke it with
> fvwm >= 2.3.26.
Hell, this is *buggy*. I recommend to report this to the xine
developers. It doesn't make much sense to adapt the window
manager to cope with applications of this level of quality. Just
try to drag the setup window across the video window and you know
what I mean.
BTW, it does not crash on my system.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Mon May 07 2001 - 07:07:29 BST