Steve Goldman <sgoldman_at_gretch.East.Sun.COM> writes:
> Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> said:
> >
> > What you describe suggests that at least two applications
> > (FvwmPager and fvwm itself) have gone crazy at the same time.
> > This is extremely unlikely to happen, since both programs are
> > fairly independent of each other. Chances are good you
> > encountered a bug in the X server itself that surfaces under
> > obscure circumstances only. Can you try a different version of
> > the X server? (By the way, most of all the weird, ureproducible
> > problems people have are on Sun systems. This may be a hint that
> > the X server isn't very stable).
>
> I don't know where I'd go about getting a different version of the
> X server. I have tried patching it to the laterst rev. with no luck.
>
> I don't know if you saw my followup email or not. I've tried several
> different versions of fvwm 2.4.x, 2.3.x and until I went back to
> 2.0.46 they all had the same behavior.
>
> I've been running 2.0.46 for two weeks now and it is perfect. Although
> that doesn't exonerate the X server it at least would seem to give a clue
> as to what may being tickled.
>
> The fact that under 2.4.x if I close a window and it disappears
> from view but is never removed from the window list would seem to be
> a large clue as to at least one aspect of the bad behavior. Since I
> don't know how that is supposed to be managed I hoped (so far without
> success) that someone aware of the internals could at least point me
> to some code to look at and examine under the debugger so I'd have
> some chance at understand what is happening.
I'm still trying to gain access to Solaris 9 but so far, no go.
I notice you say 2.4.x. What version of Fvwm are you using?
You previously showed a stack trace from FvwmPager.
Can you print the variables being passed to XTextWidth?
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Received on Thu Nov 06 2003 - 15:58:32 GMT