Control: severity 972498 normal
Control: tags 972498 + upstream

Hallo,
* g.l. gragnani [Mon, Oct 19 2020, 01:26:26PM]:
> Package: icewm
> Version: 1.8.3-2
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> Since some months I switched (back) to icewm.
> Unfortunaly, a program that I often use, xnec2c, is not correctly managed by 
> icewm.
> When I start xnec2c, windows are not decorated, do not appear in the taskbar, 
> are always in foreground and are not, in any way, managed by icewm.
> xnec2c is a gtk3 multiwindow program: depending on the initial conf, the 
> program is started with one o more windows opened, suffering the symptoms 
> described before. Other windows, successively opened by xnec2c itself, are 
> instead correcly managed.
> I tried other versions of icewm, in particular 1.6.6-1 and 
> 1.4.3.0~pre-20181030-2 but results are the same.
> I tried LXDE (with Openbox) and Fluxbox and in these cases, xnec2c is duly 
> opened and managed by the wm.
> I also noticed that if I start xnec2c in fluxbox and after I switch to icewm, 
> all the windows work as it should be.

Interesting. Opened upstream issue,
https://github.com/bbidulock/icewm/issues/503

Unfortunatelly I don't have any viable workaround for you, brief
experimenting with winoptions (trying to enfoce decorations adding) was
not effective.

Best regards,
Eduard.

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