Steve Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dominik Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > What you describe suggests that at least two applications > > (FvwmPager and fvwm itself) have gone crazy at the same time. > > This is extremely unlikely to happen, since both programs are > > fairly independent of each other. Chances are good you > > encountered a bug in the X server itself that surfaces under > > obscure circumstances only. Can you try a different version of > > the X server? (By the way, most of all the weird, ureproducible > > problems people have are on Sun systems. This may be a hint that > > the X server isn't very stable). > > I don't know where I'd go about getting a different version of the > X server. I have tried patching it to the laterst rev. with no luck. > > I don't know if you saw my followup email or not. I've tried several > different versions of fvwm 2.4.x, 2.3.x and until I went back to > 2.0.46 they all had the same behavior. > > I've been running 2.0.46 for two weeks now and it is perfect. Although > that doesn't exonerate the X server it at least would seem to give a clue > as to what may being tickled. > > The fact that under 2.4.x if I close a window and it disappears > from view but is never removed from the window list would seem to be > a large clue as to at least one aspect of the bad behavior. Since I > don't know how that is supposed to be managed I hoped (so far without > success) that someone aware of the internals could at least point me > to some code to look at and examine under the debugger so I'd have > some chance at understand what is happening.
I'm still trying to gain access to Solaris 9 but so far, no go. I notice you say 2.4.x. What version of Fvwm are you using? You previously showed a stack trace from FvwmPager. Can you print the variables being passed to XTextWidth? -- Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
