On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 03:41:35PM +0000, David wrote:
> Hi Dominik Vogt,
>
> Thank you very much for your reply to my question about
> the desktop and the current viewport. I appreciate it.
>
> I am running fvwm-2.4.3: apparently I shouldn't be having
> the problem but I definitely still do. It is particularly
> aggravating because when I hit the "Restart fvwm" menu entry,
> it always comes up in a different window and if I didn't
> know better, I would think I had lost all my windows when they
> are simply in a different viewport.
>
> I just tried adding:
>
> AddToFunc ExitFunction I GotoPage 0 0
>
> It doesn't help on the Restart fvwm menu entry.
Funyy. It really should honour this. Are you 100% sure that the
correct fvwm executable is restarted (is PATH set correctly?) and
the correct configuration file is used?
> Also, I just killed
> fvwm using the "X" in the upper right corner of teh cygwin/xfree86 border
> and restarted it and it didn't help there either.
>
> It seems to me that fvwm's selection of the current
> viewport is random.
Hm, now I'm really confused. Perhaps I'd understand your problem
better if you sketch out the layout of your desktop with all the
relevant windows before and after a restart. I guess you're
trying to tell us something cygwin specific, but I still don't get
the point.
> I notice a section
>
> AddToFunc "StartFunction" I Module FvwmButtons
> I Module FvwmPager 0 0
>
> What do you think about trying to add it there?
>
> I also tried putting this in startxwin.sh
>
> fvwm2 Restart --dont-preserve-state &
Restart isn't a command line option but a built in command. Look
for "Restart" in your configuration file and replace it with
"Restart --dont-preserve-state".
> It had no affect as it made the fvwm2 command
> unintelligible, and I added it as the last line in the .fvwm2rc
> file also without any change in behavior.
>
> *Restart --dont-preserve-state
Luckily, you got the syntax wrong. You have to remove the
asterisk for the command to have any effect. But just putting
that command at the end of the config file puts fvwm into an
endless loop restarting again and again.
> Thanks for your help with the terminology. I think I had the
> term desktop but wasn't confident you used Current Viewport
> consistently.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Nov 15 2001 - 05:07:16 GMT