Debian Bug report logs -
#11886
fvwm2: pager not showing window, icon probs, raise/lower
Reported by: (Alain Enout) <enout@eurecom.fr>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:24:06 UTC
Severity: normal
Merged with 14638
Done: Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@nwgsm.ru>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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To: submit@bugs.debian.org
From: enout@eurecom.fr
Subject: fvwm2 bugs
Package: fvwm2
Version: 2.0.45-BETA-4
There are 3 problems with fvwm2 using my configuration file:
1) Sometimes the pager does not display a window which is mapped on the
screen. I just have to move the window to see it appear in the pager.
2) With some products (xfmail which is a very good mailer product
based on the xforms toolkit), there are some problems. Running xfmail from
the menu lauch it correctly. Then when I try to iconify xfmail, then
sometimes the icon maps (very fast i.e 1/100th of a second !!) on the
screen and disappear. The method I use to get xfmail back is restarting the
window manager. After several restarts, I can iconify the product and see
its icon. But the icon is not always at the specified place.
3) I use a function which name is raise-lower which lowers a top window and
raise a window which is not on the top. Sometimes a window which is not
totally on the top is lowered instead of raised when I use this function.
If that can help, please find attached the .fvwm2rc file.
I am using Debian 1.3.1, kernel version 2.0.27 and libc libc.so.5.4.33.
Best Regards
[.fvwm2rc (text/plain, attachment)]
Bug assigned to package `fvwm2'.
Request was from Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
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Bug#11886; Package fvwm2.
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Message #16 received at 11886@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
The following bugs should have been fixed or similar in the new fvwm
package, which has just been installed. (It is version 2.2-1.) Also
listed are a couple of bugs/wishlist items which appear unlikely to be
fixed for the time being.
Please let me know if there are still problems with these bugs or,
indeed, any others.
Julian
FIXED
5736 "Restart /usr/bin/X11/afterstep" with two spaces doesn't
work.
FIXED
10862 Window order messed up on restarting fvwm; patch available
(already forwarded?)
FIXED
11824a Give focus to a window (Sloppy focus) and immediately call up a
menu in window => menu ends up buried as main window gains
focus (FvwmAuto too slow or something?).
FIXED
11861 Bad default main-menu-pre.hook
NOT OBSERVED UPSTREAM
11886a Sometimes the pager does not display a mapped window until it
is moved.
FIXED
11886c RaiseLower sometimes lowers not fully-raised windows instead of
raising them.
FIXED
16143 Apparent interaction between WinList and having handles/
non-zero BorderWidth causes WinList to drift.
FIXED
18576 FvwmButtons doesn't exit and eats all processor time when
leaving X with ctl-alt-bksp.
FIXED
20444 Restarting fvwm seems to shift some windows slightly; perhaps
to do with miscalculating the save set? Something to do with
non-zero border width?
FIXED
20831 Pager balloon patch: shows balloons when over a window in the
pager. (Wishlist; patch included.)
FIXED (with ColorLimit in config file)
22286 Problems with colourful menu icons on an 8-bit display; should
fvwm2 be responsible for filtering them to a small colour set?
FIXED
24135 Purging fvwm2 doesn't remove all files.
FIXED
32796 Path problems in menu file and hook files missing.
FIXED
32939 Contains /usr/bin but doesn't use it.
FIXED
33109 Registers itself as icewm.
FIXED
33755 Should have used register-windows-manager
FIXED
34149 Same as 32796
"CLOSE AS FIXED" (BUT WHO KNOWS WHAT'S UP WITH BINDINGS)
18003 Irregularities for key bindings for Tab etc; C-M-Tab doesn't
seem to work properly; want Mouse 2 I A Iconify in
system.fvwm2rc; what happened to C/M-<arrow key>? (Debian specific?)
FIXED
21097 Gravity patch for IconBox wanted in main fvwm2.
FIXED
32795 FvwmPager should be started before user's post.hook in
system.fvwm2rc. (Debian specific?)
WON'T BE FIXED -- TOO WIDGET SPECIFIC
8785 FVWM unaware of ability to drag windows around by using their
static areas if they are Athena widgets.
MOVEMENT: middle mouse button; wordwrap: probably not
8954 FvwmPager should allow windows to be moved in it => windows
moving in main window. Also, could wordwrap titles in Pager.
DONE (except for default?)
14791 MenuStyle should default to fvwm, not mwm. The behaviour of
menus at the right side of the screen could do with
improvement.
SHOULD BE FIXED
21547 Root menu bound to button with "Mouse 0 3 A Menu /Debian Nop",
but then submenus' positions depend on where button clicked --
may end up too far left/right. Only problem with MWM style?
CAN'T/WONT FIX:
Not the responsibility of the Windows manager, but of the X Server.
Also, can't be done in a way which makes all applications happy.
25601 Would like a possibility of keyboard mouse button emulation.
fvwm-common bugs
----------------
FIXED
11495 All sorts of copyright problems which need to be addressed.
Wishlist items - forwarded to fvwm-workers (!)
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This has not been incorporated yet -- maybe one day?
27276 Internationalisation patch (included) -- from fvwm-users-jp
mailing list.
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer. jdg@debian.org
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Message sent on to (Alain Enout) <enout@eurecom.fr>:
Bug#11886.
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Bug reassigned from package `fvwm2' to `fvwm'.
Request was from Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
to control@bugs.debian.org.
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Bug reassigned from package `fvwm' to `fvwm'.
Request was from Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>
to control@bugs.debian.org.
(full text, mbox, link).
Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>:
Bug#11886; Package fvwm.
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Acknowledgement sent to Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.
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Message #28 received at 11886@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
> 2) With some products (xfmail which is a very good mailer product
> based on the xforms toolkit), there are some problems. Running xfmail from
> the menu lauch it correctly. Then when I try to iconify xfmail, then
> sometimes the icon maps (very fast i.e 1/100th of a second !!) on the
> screen and disappear. The method I use to get xfmail back is restarting the
> window manager. After several restarts, I can iconify the product and see
> its icon. But the icon is not always at the specified place.
I have not been able to reproduce the problem of the icon disappearing
with the latest version of FVWM2 (fvwm package, 2.2-x, in potato only,
but runs quite happily on a slink (Debian 2.1) system). Do you still
notice this behaviour with this version?
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer. jdg@debian.org
-*- Finger jdg@master.debian.org for my PGP public key. -*-
Message sent on to (Alain Enout) <enout@eurecom.fr>:
Bug#11886.
(full text, mbox, link).
Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>:
Bug#11886; Package fvwm.
(full text, mbox, link).
Acknowledgement sent to Alain ENOUT <enout@eurecom.fr>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.
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Message #36 received at 11886@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
On 27-Apr-99 Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> 2) With some products (xfmail which is a very good mailer product
>> based on the xforms toolkit), there are some problems. Running xfmail from
>> the menu lauch it correctly. Then when I try to iconify xfmail, then
>> sometimes the icon maps (very fast i.e 1/100th of a second !!) on the
>> screen and disappear. The method I use to get xfmail back is restarting the
>> window manager. After several restarts, I can iconify the product and see
>> its icon. But the icon is not always at the specified place.
>
> I have not been able to reproduce the problem of the icon disappearing
> with the latest version of FVWM2 (fvwm package, 2.2-x, in potato only,
> but runs quite happily on a slink (Debian 2.1) system). Do you still
> notice this behaviour with this version?
Hello Julian,
At present, I use only slink, not potato....
OK, It seems it installs without problem (doesn't depends on glibc2.1 at
least), so I'll try it and keep you posted ...
Best Regards.
---
Alain ENOUT Research Engineer, Mobile Communications Dpt
enout@eurecom.fr Phone: +33 (0)4 93 00 26 65
EURECOM, 2229 rte des cretes, BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
Message sent on to (Alain Enout) <enout@eurecom.fr>:
Bug#11886.
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Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>:
Bug#11886; Package fvwm.
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Acknowledgement sent to Alain ENOUT <enout@eurecom.fr>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.
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Message #44 received at 11886@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
On 27-Apr-99 Julian Gilbey wrote:
>> 2) With some products (xfmail which is a very good mailer product
>> based on the xforms toolkit), there are some problems. Running xfmail from
>> the menu lauch it correctly. Then when I try to iconify xfmail, then
>> sometimes the icon maps (very fast i.e 1/100th of a second !!) on the
>> screen and disappear. The method I use to get xfmail back is restarting the
>> window manager. After several restarts, I can iconify the product and see
>> its icon. But the icon is not always at the specified place.
>
> I have not been able to reproduce the problem of the icon disappearing
> with the latest version of FVWM2 (fvwm package, 2.2-x, in potato only,
> but runs quite happily on a slink (Debian 2.1) system). Do you still
> notice this behaviour with this version?
Hello Julian,
Now I've been running fvwm2 2.2 for 1 week. I still got the problem.
My setup is fvwm2 2.2 1600x1200 display (this can be one reason).
I put:
Style "XFMail" Sticky, IconBox -108 0 -107 1, StickyIcon
in my fvwm2rc file to iconify this application in the upper right corner.
If you need, I can send you my whole fvwm2rc file and a binary version of
xfmail.
Best Regards.
---
Alain ENOUT Research Engineer, Mobile Communications Dpt
enout@eurecom.fr Phone: +33 (0)4 93 00 26 65
EURECOM, 2229 rte des cretes, BP 193, F-06904 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
Message sent on to (Alain Enout) <enout@eurecom.fr>:
Bug#11886.
(full text, mbox, link).
Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>:
Bug#11886; Package fvwm.
(full text, mbox, link).
Acknowledgement sent to Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.
(full text, mbox, link).
Message #52 received at 11886@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
> On 27-Apr-99 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> >> 2) With some products (xfmail which is a very good mailer product
> >> based on the xforms toolkit), there are some problems. Running xfmail from
> >> the menu lauch it correctly. Then when I try to iconify xfmail, then
> >> sometimes the icon maps (very fast i.e 1/100th of a second !!) on the
> >> screen and disappear. The method I use to get xfmail back is restarting the
> >> window manager. After several restarts, I can iconify the product and see
> >> its icon. But the icon is not always at the specified place.
> >
> > I have not been able to reproduce the problem of the icon disappearing
> > with the latest version of FVWM2 (fvwm package, 2.2-x, in potato only,
> > but runs quite happily on a slink (Debian 2.1) system). Do you still
> > notice this behaviour with this version?
>
>
> Hello Julian,
>
> Now I've been running fvwm2 2.2 for 1 week. I still got the problem.
> My setup is fvwm2 2.2 1600x1200 display (this can be one reason).
>
> I put:
> Style "XFMail" Sticky, IconBox -108 0 -107 1, StickyIcon
>
> in my fvwm2rc file to iconify this application in the upper right corner.
>
> If you need, I can send you my whole fvwm2rc file and a binary version of
> xfmail.
Apologies for the delay -- my last month has been crazy.
Yes, if you could send me your fvwm2rc file and the binary xfmail,
I'll take a look and see what I can figure out. (You probably don't
want to send all of this to the bug tracking system though, so either
mail me personally or send a URL from which I can download it, or
similar.)
Julian
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Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg
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