On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:09:05PM +0000, Georg Wittig wrote:
> Hello FVWM community,
>
> I don't know if my problem is related to FVWM at all, but I'll try in
> this newsgroup. I'm running a fully updated Fedora 13 with the newest
> Fvwm RPM (fvwm-2.5.26-4.fc12.x86_64).
Then it's not the newest. FVWM 2.5.30 is.
> The problem occurs, when xscreensaver jumps in (gnome-screensaver is
> disabled). When I return to my workststation and enter my password to
> xscreeansaver, then the screen is unlocked and my windows are shown
> again. But then the keyboard is completely unresponsive.
>
> The standard work-around I found is
> - either restarting fvwm from a text console
> - or by moving the mouse to another window and back again.
> The last one usually works fine - except when the window occupies the
> complete screen (for VNC windows of virtual machines for example).
Yes, this seems like an annoyingly intermittent problem which other window
managers have had reports of (XMonad being the main one). If you could try
to see if:
fvwm -f /dev/null
... also exhibits the problem you describe, then we can rule it out as a
FVWM bug.
-- Thomas Adam
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"Deep in my heart I wish I was wrong. But deep in my heart I know I am
not." -- Morrissey ("Girl Least Likely To" -- off of Viva Hate.)
