I've just noticed a couple of very odd things whilst trying to use various
applications under fvwm on FreeBSD, and I thought that rather than just
ignoring these, I should perhaps say something, in case they turn out to
be actual bugs.

1)

First, under fvwm, some certain applications, specifically evince and
the chromium browser, display with any of the usual outer framing that
fvwm seems to provide for all other X application programs, e.g. Xterm,
xpdf, and the Firefox and Oprera browsers.

I made an effort to see if these two applications (evince & chromium)
exhibit the same issue when run under twm.  They do not, in that case.
When run under twm, they get an outer frame just like everything else.


2)

The chromium browser, when run under fvwm, exhibits the strange property
that, unlike all other X applications, if its window becomes partially
hidden underneath another window, and if one then tries to foreground it
again, by clicking on some visible part of it, it will not foreground.

I also tried to see if I could reproduce this issue under twm, and in
that case the problem/issue was not present, and chromium windows would
foreground normally when some visible part was clicked on.

That's all.  Just thought that y'all might like to know.

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