RE: FVWM: Premature close of OpenInterface GUI

From: Dameron, Gregg <gregg.dameron_at_lmco.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 09:55:16 -0700

> > We are trying to run Sun's RAID Manager GUI, rm6. When it
> runs, it displays
> > a box of icons that lets the user launch child GUI
> processes (similar to the
> > CDE App Manager). FvwmIdent shows all the rm6 GUIs to be class
> > "OpenInterface", resource "openedit".
> >
> > Some of the child process GUIs have a Toolbar. When you
> roam the mouse over
> > one of the toolbar buttons, a popup tooltip is supposed to
> appear. What
> > happens is, you get the tooltip for a few milliseconds,
> then the child GUI's
> > process exits normally (status 0), as if it had received a
> close request
> > from the window manager. Truss reveals no obvious "smoking gun".
> >
> > I tried using the default (built-in) fvwm2 configuration
> and got the same
> > result.
> >
> > I went back to my regular configuration and tried using the
> keyboard mapping
> > to move the mouse (Alt + arrow keys). I can move the mouse
> over the toolbar
> > buttons, and the process stays up, but then, the tooltip
> never appears.
> >
> > The rm6 GUIs work fine under olwm, dtwm and twm. Any
> suggestions are very
> > welcome.
>
> It's hard to say what is going on without seeing what events
> inside fvwm cause the the frame to disappear. I can't imagine why
> fvwm should tell the window to close itself. I guess rm6 isn't
> available freely (and on Linux) so I could try again?
>

Sun may be willing to provide an evaluation copy to whomever among you runs
Solaris (Dan Espen, perhaps?). Failing that, I am willing to help debug the
problem -- can you recommend a next step?
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Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 10:57:02 GMT

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