Re: FVWM: fvwm Restart re-arranges konsole sessions

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:28:18 +0000

On 15 Dec 2003 19:16:56 +0200, stu wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:59:11 +0000
> Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 15 Dec 2003 16:58:10 +0200, stu wrote:
> > >
> > > I have three individual konsole sessions running. Whenever I restart
> > > fvwm, the konsole sessions are re-arranged
> > >
> > > Before Restart
> > > --------------
> > > DesktopPage 3 : konsole session 1
> > > DesktopPage 4 : konsole session 2
> > > DesktopPage 10 : konsole session 3
> > >
> > > After Restart
> > > -------------
> > > DesktopPage 3 : konsole session 3
> > > DesktopPage 4 : konsole session 1
> > > DesktopPage 10 : konsole session 2

What exactly do you mean by "DesktopPage 3"?
Desk 1, Page 0, 2 or something else?

> > > The re-arranging does not seem to follow any pattern, except that it
> > > seems to happen after every restart (using fvwm's 'Restart'
> > > command).
> > >
> > > Why is this happening?
> > > How would I prevent this from happening?
> >
> > It seems like you run fvwm under some session manager, like ksmserver.
>
> No I don't. fvwm is all I need :)

It is easy to determine whether fvwm is run under a session manager.
Open any xterm or FvwmConsole and execute: echo $SESSION_MANAGER # if set

> > So either don't do this, i.e. put "fvwm" as the only program of your
> > ~/.xinitrc,
>
> My ~/.xinitrc contains only the following :
>
> xsetroot -solid black
> xset r rate 400 80
> # This pointer is ugly
> xsetroot -cursor_name diamond_cross
> xscreensaver &
> exec fvwm &>fvwm.out 2>&1

I hope this is a typo, because this first "&" is incorrect, you should
run the window manager in foreground, if you run it in background then
some other process holds the X running (usually a session manager).

Ok, I need more input to continue.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Mon Dec 15 2003 - 10:30:57 GMT

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