On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:44:08PM -0600, Buchs, Kevin J. wrote:
> Dear FVWM List,
>
> I have been using fvwm2 for quite a while, on HP-UX, and I am currently
> running version 2.2.5. I have had an annoying problem for quite some time
> and I promised myself I would try to find an answer today.
>
> At various times my pointer will change from the default arrow to a black
> circle and the mouse button actions will be neutralized for a click or more,
> meaning, they don't work in their assigned function, and I need to click a
> couple of times to clear fvwm out of this "mode." Nothing else happens
> during these clicks.
>
> I thought there could be something I was doing strange in my .fvwm2rc so I
> deleted everything that wasn't something I understood (I copied statements
> >from many others along the way). I only have menu, function, key, button
> and style commands left for the most part. Still the problem persists.
>
> This problem usually seems to occur after I do a "Close" on a window. I
> also have this problem occur some of the time when I go to manipulate the
> icons.
Fvwm is waiting for you to select a window to do something with
it. Check what actions are actually run when that happens and
eliminate everything that requires a window to run with. In newer
versions you'll get a crosshair instead of the dot.
> A second problem I frequently have is certain applications want to place
> their title bar off the screen.
> I understand this may be an issue with
> applications failing to follow ICCCM guidelines.
That's the problem. The ICCCM doesn't specify exactly how
application specified positions are to be interpreted in some
cases. Traditionally, almost all applications I know off used the
'old' way of specifying positions. That is until Sun implemented
it in Java in the other way. Since then, the 'new' approach has
become more popular.
> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem in general? I
> would rather not have to hard code for each offending
> application.
Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it. You can put
the windows' positions in your .Xdefaults file, but that doesn't
help if you need multiple windows of this kind.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Fri Feb 22 2002 - 16:07:39 GMT