On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:47:41AM -0700, Brian Taylor wrote:
> Dominik Vogt wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 04:32:38AM -0700, Brian Taylor wrote:
> > > I am a systems Admin that uses rm6 on a pretty regular basis. I started
> > > using fvmw2 and fell in love with it's configurability at home. I just
> > > installed it on my work Sparc and am running into one small problem.
> > > Everything works wonderful with the exception of when I bring up rm6 from
> > > one of the production machines I work on. The window keeps disapearing on
> > > me.
> >
> > Does the applications crash completely or is it just the window
> > that disappers (perhaps moves off screen)? I guess you are
> > implying that the applications works well under CDE? Can you find
> > any more symptoms of the problem? It is hard to say anything
> > since "window disappears" is way too vague to hunt down the
> > problem. You could perhaps try to run fvwm with an empty config
> > file to see if it is related to the configuration. Also, if you
> > post your config file to the mailing list I can see if I can find
> > something suspicious.
> >
> > > I have checked the error file I have created and xconsole and neither
> > > show any information as to why it would crash like this. Has anyone else
> > > experienced this? If so can you help me out?
> >
> > Which fvwm release do you have?
>
> Thanks Dominik for the reply. I think I was finally able to get the
> problem taken care of. The app was not stopping and the origional window
> that comes up was staying, but any new windows that the app would open
> up would get automatically closed. At first I thought it may be
> something with the code in the newer versions of FVWM because I tried an
> old version 2.1.5 and this problem did not exist. I then removed the
> older version and tried 3.4.0 again and sure enough the same problem. I
> then tried to play with my config file and after removing these three
> things the problem I was seeing went away:
>
> #Style "*" RandomPlacement
> #Style "*" NoPPosition
> #Style "*" NakedTransient
>
> Thanks for the input I am sure I was just doing something wrong in the
> config file.
Hm, neither of these setting should have such an effect. I could
imagine that *not* using NoPPosition might show a problem, but not
the other way round. Is there any chance I can test this myself?
Where can I get this application?
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Mon Aug 13 2001 - 04:00:58 BST