Re: FVWM: fvwm showing kill icon when starting and restarting

[Dan Espen]

lee  writes:

> Hi,
>
> what could be the reason for fvwm showing its kill icon on startup and
> when restarting?

Do you mean kill cursor?

> It seems to do that since after I made some change to the configuration,
> and I don't remember what that change was.  When it first happened, I
> thought "ok, it's been restarted like so often and might be confused and
> this will go away on a fresh start" --- but it didn't.
>
> The configuration is here: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm

Somewhere in there you're issuing a Delete or Destroy not in a window
context.

-- 
Dan Espen

Re: SOLVED: Re: FVWM: fvwm showing kill icon when starting and restarting

[Dan Espen]

lee  writes:

> Dan Espen  writes:
>
>> lee  writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> what could be the reason for fvwm showing its kill icon on startup and
>>> when restarting?
>>
>> Do you mean kill cursor?
>
> I guess so --- it's some icon which is probably supposed to look like a
> skull with bones under it.  I vaguely remember having seen that
> somewhere many years ago, and this icon reminds me of it.
>
>>> It seems to do that since after I made some change to the configuration,
>>> and I don't remember what that change was.  When it first happened, I
>>> thought "ok, it's been restarted like so often and might be confused and
>>> this will go away on a fresh start" --- but it didn't.
>>>
>>> The configuration is here: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm
>>
>> Somewhere in there you're issuing a Delete or Destroy not in a window
>> context.
>
> "not in a window context"?  I'm only destroying functions ... Oh, I
> found it!  I used "Destroy" where I should have put "DestroyFunc".

Glad to hear.

I think you have "not in a window context" figured out.

A title bar button has a window context, a destroy on a window button
"knows" which window to destroy.

A root window key binding for destroy doesn't know which window to
destroy (there is no window context), so fvwm changes the mouse pointer
to the skull you saw waiting for a click on a window to know which
window to destroy.

-- 
Dan Espen

SOLVED: Re: FVWM: fvwm showing kill icon when starting and restarting

[lee]

Dan Espen  writes:

> lee  writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> what could be the reason for fvwm showing its kill icon on startup and
>> when restarting?
>
> Do you mean kill cursor?

I guess so --- it's some icon which is probably supposed to look like a
skull with bones under it.  I vaguely remember having seen that
somewhere many years ago, and this icon reminds me of it.

>> It seems to do that since after I made some change to the configuration,
>> and I don't remember what that change was.  When it first happened, I
>> thought "ok, it's been restarted like so often and might be confused and
>> this will go away on a fresh start" --- but it didn't.
>>
>> The configuration is here: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm
>
> Somewhere in there you're issuing a Delete or Destroy not in a window
> context.

"not in a window context"?  I'm only destroying functions ... Oh, I
found it!  I used "Destroy" where I should have put "DestroyFunc".

Thanks!


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