>lpickup_at_VNET.IBM.COM said:
>> I have now tried the latest fvwm and the latest exmh (1.6.9) and
>> the problem still exists. However, during the course of testing, I
>> found that it only happens when I specify the geometry on the command
>> line:
>>
>> exmh -geom 920x970-165-10 &
>>
>> If I let the geometry default, I do not get this odd behavior.
>
>Do you by chance have the exmh 'remeber window placement' preference
>set to ON? I seem to recall that having that, was a very good reason
>to NOT start with a geometry....
>
>Check your prefs, and erase the placement-lines in your .exmh-defaults,
>that might help.
Okay, it's been a good day!
I should have read the following from my .exmh-defaults-color file (even
though it's not that clear about what the bug is):
! To avoid a resizing bug in TK, do not specify geometry resources
! for the toplevel windows. Instead, use "position", which
! exmh groks. The bug is that you cannot specify a geometry like
! +10-40 for a toplevel frame (frame creation barfs), and if you
! specify a width and height, it has to be in pixels (because the
! gridded text subwindow isn't created yet) and you don't have
! any clue as to the right size. If you guess wrong, the window
! will jump from your wrong size to the correct size that has room
! to pack all its subwindows. Alternatively, go ahead and pick a
! pixel size for the toplevel, but do not specify a geometry for
! the text subwindow.
I actually killed two bugs today. First, I found that the only way I could
really get this to work was to turn off remember window placement and specify
the geometry without the offset, or I could use window placement, but I had
an erroneous "exmh.geometry: " in my .exmh-defaults-color file, which I
imagine canceled the saved geometry, and I was just getting the default
geometry. But now it does remember my geometry, and without specifying the
offset, I don't get the strange behavior any more!
The second bug was that it was taking 5 minutes to exit from exmh.
After taking Mattias' recommendation and turning off remember window
placement and removing all my gazillion positions from my .exmh-defaults file,
exmh now exits immediately! Oh happy day!
Thanks for the help everyone.
...Lance
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Received on Tue Dec 03 1996 - 12:58:51 GMT