hello Jeff... you, as the current maintainer of libdockapp2 might have a look at this.
bye,
Sebastian
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To: Simon Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#293546: wmacpi just display a black box
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Simon Fowler a �crit :
>On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 12:05:40PM +0100, Sebastian Henschel wrote:
>
>>hi...
>>
>>* Encolpe DEGOUTE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-04 11:16 +0100]:
>>
>>>Package: wmacpi
>>>Version: 2.1-1
>>>
>>>When wmacpi is launched without option, it only displays a black box in
>>>the MonitorWharf and standalone.
>>>With text mode option or -v -v -v -v I can see the good ACPI
>>>informations.
>>
>>you mean, if you use that very verbose setting, you can see the
>>information in the dockapp-window, within afterstep?
>>
>>
>>
>>>Problem see with Afterstep 2.00.02-2 and there's no problem with
>>>WindowMaker 0.91.0-7.
>>
>>afterstep, too?
>>i tested with windowmaker, fluxbox and twm; these work fine (twm has
>>to disable its decorations). i experienced the same problem as you
>>with KDE and XFCE.
>>well, upstream is informed about that. :)
>>
>
>Okay, I've had a closer look at this, and I think it's either a
>libdockapp issue or a window maker issue.
>
>What's happening is that libdockapp essentially forces apps using it
>to render to the icon window. This is the same with the libdockapp
>examples, so I don't think wmacpi is misusing the library. The window
>maker dock
>seems to display things fine whether it's displaying to the icon
>window or the app window, but most other window managers will only
>display the icon window when the app is iconified - this is why
>iconifying wmacpi under twm causes it to work.
>
>The WM dock displays things happily either way (try running wmifs
>under twm - it works exactly as expected, so it must be drawing to
>the main window), so I'm not sure why libdockapp is doing it this
>way . . .
>
>Sadly, my X11-fu is insufficient to modify libdockapp to switch the
>drawing around, so I can't change it to test. However, I'm fairly
>confident this is the problem.
>
>I guess this should be handed off to the libdockapp maintainer.
I'm agree with you.
Regards,
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