FVWM: fvwm hangs

From: Bruce M Beach <brucemartinbeach_at_21cn.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 21:49:22 +0000 (GMT)

  Hello All

  If I execute a tcl script from the fvwm menu
  that has the the following line:
    "Tkxset" Exec exec /scripts/tkxset
  It start up fine and works fine but when I push the "quit"
  button which executes the following tcl procedure

      #!/usr/local/bin/wish #<----- First line of script
      ..
      ..
      proc quit {} {
      destroy .
      }
  the button stays depressed and the whole root screen partially
  freezes. Partially because the mouse is still working, but the
  various applications do not respond. (i.e in focus-follows mouse
  the xterms dont' change color as I move the mouse into them,
  raising and lowering window or moving no longer works etc.)

  Now if I'm clever I'll have two xterms
  1) with the line: sh-2.05a# ps x
  2) with the line: sh-2.05a# kill

  I can add a carriage return to the "ps x", get the process
  number (cut and paste) and add it to the kill and kill the
  tk application. It does not kill the application!, or restore
  the window manager. Every thing remains non-functional but the
  usual sequence "cntrl-alt-backspace" still works so I can kill
  the xserver and start again.

  I have the following
        (These comments apply to all tk/tcl applications)

    1) Start tkset(just a tk/tcl application) from an xterm.
        Works fine and exits fine.
    2) Start from the root menu and use the window dropdown
        ...
        ...
        Delete
        Close <-- this partially hangs the window manager
        Destroy <-- closes the application
        ...
        ...

    I'm using
        fvwm-2.4.8
        linux-2.4.18
        xwindows 4.20
        glibc-2.2.5
        gcc-3.0.4
        no gnome

    I suspect that the problem is not fvwm but
    one of the other major subsystems, but who ?
    I've been using fvwm for 5 or 6 years and
    this is something new.

   Bruce

   Ps I'm behind the great firewall of China and if
   I subscribe to the list I tend to get weird things
   happening like messages from the mailing list saying
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   so if you could cc any replies it would be appreciated.


   Brucemartinbeach_at_21cn.com

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