Re: FVWM: FvwmButtons and fullscreenmodes in recent fvwm broken?

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:55:17 -0500

Trilobit <trilo_at_gmx.net> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I recently updated my Debian Linux Box.
> And so I got version 2.5.12 of fvwm installed.
> After starting X11 with the new fvwm and my old working configuration
> for 2.5.x FvwmButtons hangs using 99percent of CPU time.
> And, after moving a window (in not opaque style), seems to freeze fvwm
> for some seconds. And so, giving after the freeze following error message
> (the only on in the whole .xsession-errors file):
> ----------------------------
> FVWM][FlushMessageQueue]: <<ERROR>> Failed to write descriptor to 'FvwmButton
> s':
> - select rc=0
> - terminate signal=N
> ---------------------------
> So I installed, just for testing, version 2.5.8 from www.fvwm.org, the proble
> m
> had gone.

Possibly you have a ModulePath statement in your config file.
Remove it.

> Some days later I was watching a movie with mplayer, I realised that the full
> screen
> window of it did not pop up in front of every window (somewhere above Layer 7
> ),
> but stayed at Layer 4, hidden by FvwmButtons which stays fixed at Layer 7.

FvwmButtons doesn't go to Layer 7 by default, look in your config.

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Received on Fri Jan 14 2005 - 11:57:21 GMT

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