Re: FVWM: FVWM and xterm (with active icons)

From: Ben J. Cohen <bjc23_at_hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:20:41 +0000 (GMT)

>Previously...
>>The other day I saw in the xterm man page the capability for "active
>>icons", where the icon for xterm becomes a minature picture of what's on
>>the screen (with about one pixel per character!)
>
>Hrmm, never heard of this.

It is basically like setting the font size to "unreadable".

(Have you never heard of active icon, or of the problem?)

>>Also, with FVWM set up as described as above, if I iconise an xterm to an
>>active icon and then deiconise it, any subsequent resize will reduce the
>>window to a 1x1 character screen, which won't expand again. This doesn't
>>happen if xterm has active icon disabled, and it doesn't happen in twm.
>>Is this a fault, or is there an option that I have set up wrongly?
>
>This sounds like it *must* be related to the xterm-resize bug.

Yes, I agree. (In fact, you get exactly the same result as above if you
use the "unreadable" size font.)

Thanks,

Ben.

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