Re: FVWM: Borderless ICQ applet popups, Again

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 11:43:50 +0100

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:09:20PM +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> I installed the latest snapshot as

> afviced

Uh, what?

> (20020114).
> And I tried to reproduce the unmanaged window problem,
> I never got an unmanged window again,

Okay, that's a step in the right direction.

> but once I got a popup saying something like:
> XmPopup
> XtGrabPointer failed

Unless the window is placed manually, fvwm does not grab the
pointer when placing windows (although it grabs the server, but
that shouldn't make a difference here). Maybe the client does
something wrong in the calls to

> Now the window manager (or X) had hang (although ctrl-alt-backspace
> worked, XFree86).

If ctrl-alt-backspace still works, X does not hang. This is
usually caused by an application grabbing the server and never
releasing it. All other X programs appear to be frozen (including
the window manager). Might that application be stupid enough to
grab the server and then grab the pointer? Sou7nds a bit like
this. If it would grab the server while another application had
grabben the pointer, the latter would never get the chance to
release the pointer again.

Can I get the source code of that application somewhere?

> I run this applet from Netscape, so the message leads me to believe that
> the origin of the problem is within (the statically linked) Motif
> library of Netscape (4.76 on Linux x86).
> The problem seems to arise because when you click on a contact
> a menu is popped up and on the second click (a double click) a message
> dialog is opened (in a new window).
> Maybe this window gets the menus properties of being unmanaged.
> This would ofcourse be a bug in Netscape (not Fvwm).

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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