On 23-May-2002 Kevin Geiss wrote:
> I use wmswallow and aterm together to get a little terminal in the slit.
> here's
> the lines from my .xinitrc:
> 
> aterm -sh 60 -tr -ls -fn 6x10 -g 10x6 -cr green -fg green +sb -name dockterm&
> /usr/local/bin/wmswallow -focus -geom 64x64 dockterm&
> 
> used to work great, but at least in alpha4 and alpha6, the wmswallow
> thinks it has swallowed aterm, but the aterm is still floating around as
> a regular window, with decorations and all. there is a white square in
> the slit where the aterm should be. if i change to another workspace and
> put the mouse in the white square, wmswallow crashes with this message:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  42 (X_SetInputFocus)
>   Serial number of failed request:  310
>   Current serial number in output stream:  310
> 

damn, i had fixed this app before .....

> I tried alpha6 since there was some slit tweaking, but it didn't fix it.
> 
> in alpha6 i got a new problem: bbmail shows up on the opposite side of
> the screen from my slit! it shows up on all desktops, just away from the
> slit. if i bring up the bbmail menu by right-clicking on the envelope,
> the menu pops up where you would expect it to be if bbmail was actually
> in the slit.
> 

yep, known problem, even in the TODO (-:  The slit seems to accept the bbtool
and then spit it out.

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