On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:32:24PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> I noticed a problem in the current version of fvwm (2.4.16 on Debian testing)
> that affects xterm, and am curious if you have some idea how to analyze it.  If
> I type
>       resize -s 40 80
> in xterm, it does an XtMakeResizeRequest for the corresponding number of
> pixels.  Immediately after, X calls the resize function of the xterm vt100
> widget with 40x80 as the pixel size of the window.  That repeats, and I get a
> 3x13 window as a result.

xterm is doing some non-standard things with its geometry that can
confuse some versions of fvwm.  Try fvwm-2.5.7.

> If I run ltrace on fvwm, it slows things down enough that everything works as
> expected - I get a 40x80 character-sized window.  Building 2.4.16 from source,
> I get the same results, so it's not the Debian package.
> 
> This is code that I've been using as-is on different window managers for
> several years, of course, including older versions of fvwm...

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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