On 02 Jul 2003 17:37:11 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> I have a couple of curious fvwm-related problems which, after lengthy
> examination, I am still unable to solve.
>
>
> I use sirc as my IRC client, and icbm as my ICB client. Both clients
> are written in Perl, and both have the ability (via Perl functions
> loaded from their startup files) to launch external applications. In
> particular, I commonly launch Xcoral, a graphical programming editor,
> from both in order to edit their configuration files on the fly while
> running (both can reload their configuration on the fly).
>
> In icbm or sirc sessions started while running fvwm-1.24r, this works
> perfectly. If I start the clients under fvwm-1.24r and then switch to
> fvwm-2.4.16, I can still launch Xcoral from within either. But if the
> clients were launched while fvwm-2.4.16 is running, all attempts to
> launch xcoral or any other application that creates a window from within
> either sirc or icbm silently fail, even if I switch bach to fvwm-1.24r
> and try to launch them. However, executing any external command that
> does not create a window still works.
>
> Also, I use procmeter3 to monitor system status. If started from
> fvwm-1.24r's InitFunction, it works perfectly. If started from an Xterm
> while fvwm-2.4.16 is running, it works perfectly. If started from
> fvwm-2.4.16's InitFunction, it loads and draws its window correctly, but
> none of its modules ever receive any data.
You didn't show any configuration, like definition of your InitFunction
or commands you use in sirc to open other application windows.
Please do this simple test. Start your fvwm-2.4.16 using this command:
fvwm -c "AddToFunc InitFunction I Exec exec xterm -e sirc"
(place it into ~/.xinitrc or the equivalent)
Does sirc work like you expect even if started from InitFunction?
If yes, post your entire .fvwm2rc and we will try to find an error.
If no, try to do more experiments with a mininal configuration.
> (Oh, and what's with fvwm2 on Solaris defaulting to utterly and totally
> ignoring ALL user window-manager configuration?)
Please explain this question.
Do you mean Sun (or sysadmin) patched fvwm to ignore ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc
configuration file or something else?
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed Jul 02 2003 - 17:52:21 BST