I recently upgraded my workstation (SunBlade 1000) to Solaris 9.
The Solaris companion cd actually has fvwm 2.4.3 available as a
installable window manager so I don't have to go thru the usual
hacks to let me use fvwm which is very nice. I previously had
been running 2.0.46 on Solaris 8 with no problems.
One I upgraded I noticed a bunch of problems, windows not refreshing,
pager disappearing, etc. So I first tried building 2.4.3 myself with
less compiler optimization. Same behavior. So I got a copy of 2.4.16,
same behavior. So then I got 2.3.33, same behavior. Before I go back
and try moldy old 2.0.46 I thought I'd try here. I searched the mail
archives back 6monthos or so and found nothing seemingly relevant.
I also tried the bug database. Since some my version of fvwm mess up
I suspect this is really a solaris issue and not fvwm but I'm not
sure what to look for.
Here is my setup:
Solaris 9 update 4, Sunblade 1000, double headed.
With fvwm 2.4.x I see the following strange behavior:
1: fvwm pager eventually disappears. It core dumps with following
traceback:
[1] XTextWidth(0x780018, 0x37bf8, 0x6, 0x7efefeff, 0x81010100, 0xff00), at 0xff231e00
[2] DrawGrid(desk = 2, erase = 1), line 1510 in "x_pager.c"
[3] list_new_desk(body = 0x7), line 944 in "FvwmPager.c"
[4] process_message(packet = 0x36958), line 510 in "FvwmPager.c"
[5] My_XNextEvent(dpy = (nil), event = 0xffbffb40), line 1366 in "FvwmPager.c"
[6] Loop(fd = 0x36400), line 459 in "FvwmPager.c"
[7] main(argc = 225280, argv = 0xa), line 436 in "FvwmPager.c"
2: Usually once the pager disappears a window used for confirmation with exmh (the
What Now? window) which is set for StaysOnTop suddenly decides that Top is Bottom
and always send the window to the back.
3: I finally noticed that windows never seem to disappear from the Window-List. By
now I have a whole lot of windows in the window list! I've wondered if this might
somehow be the cause of symptom #1.
--
Steve
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Received on Tue Oct 14 2003 - 15:17:26 BST