G'day, I have one specific application (skycat - http://archive.eso.org/cms/tools-documentation/skycat ) that when iconified, just disappears from the window list, the taskbar, etc (this is even with the default config file)
The application (a tcl/tk app) is still running, and I can get the window back by restarting fvwm (as soon as the first fvwm process exec()s itself to death, the window pops back up underneath everything else in Z order). This doesn't happen in mwm or gnome etc, although twm actually kills the application outright. No other tcl/tk apps on the system behave in this way. With FvwmIdent, I noticed that on all but one of the installations of skycat we have here, the "Icon Name" property was blank (the other said "SkyCat/IMG", but I happen to know this was set after the program was initialised, and it would have started off as blank; it still disappears by default when iconified). All of the other properties were sane. With a bit of experimentation, I determined that using a style of: Style "SkyCat" !Icon the window no longer disappeared from all of the WindowLists anymore. Using other explicit icons did not help me in the same fashion. Of course, the "Icon Name" property still remained blank except for that one host where some other part of the system set it to "SkyCat/IMG". Any ideas as to what might be going wrong? This is over quite a few versions of 2.5.xx, currently on 2.5.27. -- TimC "A distributed system is one in which I cannot get something done because a machine I've never heard of is down." -- Leslie Lamport
