On 28 Aug 2002 19:21:41 +0100, John Latham wrote:
>
> Hi. I think I have just noticed a bug which I believe might be explained
> as follows. In fvwm 2.4.8, when the start button is activated, the menu
> is run with no window context, and so any window operations cause the
> user to first pick a window. This is good. In fvwm 2.5.{2,3} when the
> start button is activated, the menu is run with the taskbar itself as
> the window context. This is not good. The up shot is, when say a move
> operation is chosen from the start menu in 2.5, it is the task bar that
> gets moved ! :-)
>
> I recall in some of the early 2.2.x versions, the start menu was invoked
> with an illegal window context, which caused FVWM to crash if a window
> operation was invoked via it. I suggested a patch at the time to fix it
> to have the root window as focus, and sumbitted that to fvwm and to Red
> Hat. This is probably a coincidence, but you never know... :-)
No, this was broken since 2.5.1, I think.
Fixed in cvs.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 14:51:40 BST