On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi, [Please retain the CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the Debian BTS has a record of your input]This was reported by a Debian user. Recent versions of fvwm, while being able to detect other versions of fvwm currently running: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- __> fvwm [FVWM][SetupICCCM2]: <<ERROR>> another ICCCM 2.0 compliant WM is running, try -replace ---------------------------------------------------------------------- are unable to detect other window managers.(Tested with ratpoison and woody's icewm, sarge's icewm, icewm-gnome, wm2, qvwm and enlightment. Also fluxbox, blackbox, ion3, xfwm4, wmaker and twm, making this almost every other window manager other than fvwm itself). Older versions of fvwm used to display this warning: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [FVWM][CatchRedirectError]: <<ERROR>> another WM is running ---------------------------------------------------------------------- But the newer ones do not, for reasons I could not debug. This is a regression, and the other window managers are able to detect fvwm and refuse to run. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/328621 for details. manoj
I've done some tests and belive that this bug is due to a change in X with XOrg 6.8. I've tested fvwm 2.5.16, 2.5.10 and 2.5.4 from the 2.5.x branch, and all have the bug. However I'm sure that the bug was not present when I used 2.5.4 (and probably not 2.5.10) actively. Thus it must be something else that has changed since then. The bug is however not present in 2.4.19, so it must be soemthing that has changed in the early 2.5.x versions, which I weren't able to compile now.
/Viktor
