Re: FVWM: Premature close of OpenInterface GUI

From: <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 20:18:40 +0100

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:06:54PM -0700, Dameron, Gregg wrote:
> Running 2.4.7 on Solaris.
>
> We are trying to run Sun's RAID Manager GUI, rm6. When it runs, it displays
> a box of icons that lets the user launch child GUI processes (similar to the
> CDE App Manager). FvwmIdent shows all the rm6 GUIs to be class
> "OpenInterface", resource "openedit".
>
> Some of the child process GUIs have a Toolbar. When you roam the mouse over
> one of the toolbar buttons, a popup tooltip is supposed to appear. What
> happens is, you get the tooltip for a few milliseconds, then the child GUI's
> process exits normally (status 0), as if it had received a close request
> from the window manager. Truss reveals no obvious "smoking gun".
>
> I tried using the default (built-in) fvwm2 configuration and got the same
> result.
>
> I went back to my regular configuration and tried using the keyboard mapping
> to move the mouse (Alt + arrow keys). I can move the mouse over the toolbar
> buttons, and the process stays up, but then, the tooltip never appears.
>
> The rm6 GUIs work fine under olwm, dtwm and twm. Any suggestions are very
> welcome.

It's hard to say what is going on without seeing what events
inside fvwm cause the the frame to disappear. I can't imagine why
fvwm should tell the window to close itself. I guess rm6 isn't
available freely (and on Linux) so I could try again?

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Fri Nov 29 2002 - 16:33:51 GMT

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