"Dameron, Gregg" <gregg.dameron_at_lmco.com> writes:
> > > 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?
> >
>
> Sun may be willing to provide an evaluation copy to whomever among you runs
> Solaris (Dan Espen, perhaps?). Failing that, I am willing to help debug the
> problem -- can you recommend a next step?
I've switched my day to day use to Linux, (sorry Sun), but I can run
Solaris stuff if needed. We don't have any Sun raid arrays installed,
I don't know if the rm6 stuff needs hardware.
--
Dan Espen E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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Received on Tue Dec 03 2002 - 11:21:37 GMT