Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Hello

I just experienced this bug using IBM's newest JRE v1.3.1. It does *not* 
happen so frequently with IBM's JRE as with Sun's, though, but still, it 
happens.(Again, dialogs are the problem)

Just wanted to point this out, so we know it doesn't only happen with 
Sun's java stuff.

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Øyvind S.



Re: Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Chris Grossmann wrote:

Note:

Using the four-letter j word seems to be a good way to make
Shaleh use the four-letter f word.  ;)

On July 25 (12:45 EDT), Øyvind Stegard wrote:
  

Hello

I just experienced this bug using IBM's newest JRE v1.3.1. It does *not* 
happen so frequently with IBM's JRE as with Sun's, though, but still, it 
happens.(Again, dialogs are the problem)

Just wanted to point this out, so we know it doesn't only happen with 
Sun's java stuff.

--
Øyvind S.




  

Yup, I can certainly understand that. =). It seems like a very hard bug 
to squash, and doesn't even seem like Blackbox's fault AFAIK. Still, I 
find it important, simply because many people use Ja** applications, and 
secondly because it doesn't happen with other WMs (at least the 3, or 4 
others I've tried).

I hope I am not making anyone angry by giving some input to this Ja** 
issue. :).

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Øyvind S.



Re: Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

Yup, I can certainly understand that. =). It seems like a very hard bug 
to squash, and doesn't even seem like Blackbox's fault AFAIK. Still, I 
find it important, simply because many people use Ja** applications, and 
secondly because it doesn't happen with other WMs (at least the 3, or 4 
others I've tried).

I hope I am not making anyone angry by giving some input to this Ja** 
issue. :).




a bug is a bug.

Have you tried fvwm2?


  

Nope, I have not tried this wm. Just visited the web page where it 
belongs. I could give it a whirl later today, perhaps. Will tell my 
observations of how it behaves with java. (I'll try JRE's from Sun and 
from IBM)

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Øyvind S.



Re: Java/Blackbox oversized window bug with IBM JRE

2002-07-25 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Jamin W. Collins wrote:

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Mr. Brigham Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

Q: How do you make a Pentium III perform like a 386?
A: Use Java Apps



Boy have you been using the wrong Java Apps.

  

Yup, a bit exaggerated. The speed of the newest JVMs is great, if you 
ask me. Most Java apps I use, run quite smoothly.

Btw, I experienced the bug with the Blackdown JRE too, but the problem 
was more often too small dialogs than too big.(Like dialog sizes of 2x10 
pixels and such) - *Covering my head from flying coffee cups/other 
easily accessible/throwable desktop objects* =).

So I've tried three different JVMs now, none of them likes to cooperate 
with Blackbox. Also worth mentioning, all applications I've tried are 
quite heavy, and needs a bit of loading time. I think I remember hearing 
someone talk about this.



bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Perhaps someone here can help me with this:
Tried to compile latest and greatest bbconf on my Mandrake 8.2 
system(lotsof upgrades done).

I have installed libqt3-3.0.4 and libqt3-devel-3.0.4, but the configure 
script complains that it cannot find qt (=3.0.3), and aborts. (Can't 
find libqt-mt).

I have verified that this library IS available with ldconfig -v. Any 
tips on how I can get the configure script to properly detect the 
installed qt-libraries ?

Regards,
ØS.



Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Ben Jansens wrote:

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:33:44PM +0200, ?yvind Stegard wrote:
  

Perhaps someone here can help me with this:
Tried to compile latest and greatest bbconf on my Mandrake 8.2 
system(lotsof upgrades done).

I have installed libqt3-3.0.4 and libqt3-devel-3.0.4, but the configure 
script complains that it cannot find qt (=3.0.3), and aborts. (Can't 
find libqt-mt).

I have verified that this library IS available with ldconfig -v. Any 
tips on how I can get the configure script to properly detect the 
installed qt-libraries ?



libqt-mt is different from libqt. libqt-mt is what KDE uses. Perhaps
that will help you track it down.

xOr
  

Isn't just libqt-mt the [m]ulti[t]hreaded version of libqt ? I have the 
libqt-mt.so.3.0.4 file installed and recognized by the dynamic 
linker.(All development files are also installed) So I should have the 
correct library installed. I cannot see why bbconf configure script 
won't recognize it. I have also tried all the --with-qt-dir=..., 
--with-qt-libraries=, --with-qt-includes= switches and setting the 
QTDIR variable. Also, there are several different symlinks pointing to 
libqt-mt.so.3.0.4, in the lib-dir, with various simpler names including 
libqt-mt.so.



Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

I have verified that this library IS available with ldconfig -v. Any 
tips on how I can get the configure script to properly detect the 
installed qt-libraries ?
   



libqt-mt is different from libqt. libqt-mt is what KDE uses. Perhaps
that will help you track it down.

xOr
 

  

Isn't just libqt-mt the [m]ulti[t]hreaded version of libqt ? I have the 
libqt-mt.so.3.0.4 file installed and recognized by the dynamic 
linker.(All development files are also installed) So I should have the 
correct library installed. I cannot see why bbconf configure script 
won't recognize it. I have also tried all the --with-qt-dir=..., 
--with-qt-libraries=, --with-qt-includes= switches and setting the 
QTDIR variable. Also, there are several different symlinks pointing to 
libqt-mt.so.3.0.4, in the lib-dir, with various simpler names including 
libqt-mt.so.



unless you have libqt-mt-devel or whatever your dist calls it the configure
script won't find it.


  

Yep, like I said, I have all the development files installed as well. 
(libqt3-devel-3.0.4 package). I also jsut noticed that someone has filed 
a bug on the same problem at bbconf.sf.net.



Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

unless you have libqt-mt-devel or whatever your dist calls it the configure
script won't find it.


 

  

Yep, like I said, I have all the development files installed as well. 
(libqt3-devel-3.0.4 package). I also jsut noticed that someone has filed 
a bug on the same problem at bbconf.sf.net.



you are missing the point.  libqt3-devel is NOT libqt3-mt-devel.  Their
configure script expects you to have installed the mt lib and devel.


  

OK, I see..Hm.. So there should be a package named libqt3-mt-devel 
somewhere, or libqt3-mt ? That's strange, since all my searches result 
in the libqt3 package, which does contain a multithreaded library (I've 
checked), together with a libqt3-devel package(which also contains a 
QThread.h file in the includes-dir, which I assume has something to do 
with the multithreading features?). Searching for libqt-mt-devel gives 
no results on Google/linux, rpmfind.net nor Mandrake's website(s).

Perhaps I must go to Trolltech and get their free version and compile 
the whole monster it to make it work ? =)

I find no indication that there is a libqt3-mt-devel rpm package 
anywhere. I might, of course, be totally wrong, but it seems so. Any 
more tips would be greatly appreciated, since I'm a bit confused right 
now and would like to get bbconf up and running.
Thanks..



Re: bbconf 1.8 configure error(libqt3 detection)

2002-07-18 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Hmm. Since it looks like there's some sort of problem with Mandrake 
and/or the RPMs, I've decided to erase the packages of the QT3 library, 
d/l offical tarball from Trolltech and compile the whole thing myself. 
(w/multithread support enabled =). Perhaps this will resolve the issue.

Thanks for the help.

--
Øyvind S.



Yet another *tiny tiny* feature suggestion

2002-07-15 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Hi there

I know many people here oppose most new feature suggestions, and I 
understand, I think most Blackbox users will agree when I say that we 
don't won't a bloated and big wm. That being said, I would still like to 
point out a little issue that I have encountered:
When working with maximised applications there is nowhere to right click 
to open the Blackbox menu. So I must either resize the current 
application(and possibly others underneath it) or change workspaces and 
open the blackbox menu there(where some desktop space is visible), and 
launch whatever I need. How about a possibility of making a keybinding 
(with bbkeys) that will *only* bring the menu up (in the middle of the 
screen or something), nothing more. No key navigation or anything, I can 
use the mouse after the menu has become visible =).

It would make things a bit easier and shouldn't require much code (?) to 
implement.

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Øyvind S.



Re: Yet another *tiny tiny* feature suggestion

2002-07-15 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Gerrit Hoetzel wrote:

Why are you using that integrated blackbox menu, at all?
Many people on this list want keyboard navigation, popup on key, ...
  

Well, if you ask 10 different people how they usually work with their 
desktop/X environment, you are likely to get 10 different answers. It's 
simply a feature that would suit my needs very well(and perhaps other 
people's needs as well). So it couldn't hurt to post a request.

Personally, I only use the blackbox menu to shutdown blackbox (and even
this could be accomplished with a 'killall blackbox').

Why don't you use other means of starting an app?
For my personal use I wrote a small gtk-app, which pops up (using bbkeys)
and offers a list of programs among which I can choose a program to
start. I hit return, the menu shuts down and the program is started.
  

I bet it is simpler to implement the blackbox keyboard menu popup than 
write a dedicated launch application. Why would I want to reinvent the 
wheel when the very nice blackbox menu already exists ?

One could develope another bbx app, which does about that and reads the
default blackbox menuFile.

Hmm... Why ? That's what the blackbox menu is there for :). I would 
consider this overkill

I like my blackbox menu =)



Java dialog problem encountered in other apps

2002-07-12 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Just wanted to point out that I just experienced the dialog problem with 
LimeWire running JRE1.4.1 from Sun (the newest, as far as I know). 
Problem does not seem to be specifically related to just JBuilder, but 
perhaps it's worse with JBuilder than other Java apps.

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ØS.



Re: JBuilder and Blackbox-- Dialogs Way Too Big?

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Roy Wood wrote:

Anyone else working with JBuilder and Blackbox?

With other window managers, JBuilder's dialogs are okay, but with 
Blackbox, they open way too big (as in much larger than the actual screen 
size).


Any thoughts on what's up?  Is BB providing some hinting for window sizes 
that is screwing things up?  Where in the BB code should I look to fix 
this?


-Roy


  

Yep, I am having the same problems with BlackBox and JBuilder 7 
(Personal edition, I'm a poor student =). Dialogs blow up in massive 
proportions, way out of the screen area. Sometimes dialogs appear 
totally blank, and have to be closed with the close window button. 
(Not sure this is a blackbox issue though, but still, can't seem to 
remember this problem from when I was using Sawfish+Gnome)

For the record, JBuilder itself runs on JRE 1.3.1 from Sun(as far as I 
know). I have had problems with other Java apps using JRE 1.3.1 on 
Linux. JRE 1.4.1 seems a lot better on graphics and speed, but I am not 
sure whether the JavaVM is causing this behaviour, or the JBuilder code.



xprop and xwininfo on JBuilder dialog, running blackbox (Oversized dialogs problem)

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard

OK, maybe this would help a little.
Launched JBuilder and did xprop and xwininfo on the Tip of the Day 
dialog that appears first (greatly and incorrectly oversized)
Blackbox version is 0.65b2, X screen resolution is 1024x768 (24bit).
I did not move, resize or touch anything before doing these commands.

xprop on oversized Tip of the Day-dialog:

_BLACKBOX_ATTRIBUTES(_BLACKBOX_ATTRIBUTES) = 0x50, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x1, 
0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
window state: Normal
icon window: 0x0
WM_TRANSIENT_FOR(WINDOW): window id # 0x1800021
_MOTIF_WM_MESSAGES(ATOM) = _MOTIF_WM_OFFSET
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  _MOTIF_WM_MESSAGES, WM_DELETE_WINDOW
_MOTIF_WM_HINTS(_MOTIF_WM_HINTS) = 0x6, 0x, 0x1, 0x3, 0x4ff82610
WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x1800021
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = no
WM_CLASS(STRING) = AWTdialog, VendorShell
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
Client accepts input or input focus: True
Initial state is Normal State.
window id # of group leader: 0x1800021
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
program specified location: 278, 241
program specified size: 1054 by 743
window gravity: NorthWest
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = gandalf.zeo-underground
WM_NAME(STRING) = Tip of the Day


xwininfo on oversized Tip of the Day dialog:

xwininfo: Window id: 0x1800026 Tip of the Day

  Absolute upper-left X:  278
  Absolute upper-left Y:  241
  Relative upper-left X:  0
  Relative upper-left Y:  0
  Width: 1054
  Height: 743
  Depth: 24
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: yes
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +278+241  --308+241  --308--216  +278--216
  -geometry 1054x743+277+220


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ØS.



Testing the JBuilder (java?) oversized dialog problem with other WMs

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Hi again

Just tested JBuilder with twm and then Sawfish, and the oversized dialog 
box problem never happened, so I'm pretty sure that the problem is 
Blackbox-JavaVM/JBuilder related.

Here are the results of xprop and xwininfo under twm (exactly same 
situation/dialog as before)
(I have not checked for any differences here, I'm a newbie when it comes 
to the inner workings of the X window system)

xprop on JBuilder dialog (correctly sized) using twm:
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
window state: Normal
icon window: 0x0
WM_TRANSIENT_FOR(WINDOW): window id # 0xc00021
_MOTIF_WM_MESSAGES(ATOM) = _MOTIF_WM_OFFSET
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  _MOTIF_WM_MESSAGES, WM_DELETE_WINDOW
_MOTIF_WM_HINTS(_MOTIF_WM_HINTS) = 0x6, 0x, 0x1, 0x3, 0x0
WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0xc00021
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = no
WM_CLASS(STRING) = AWTdialog, VendorShell
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
Client accepts input or input focus: True
Initial state is Normal State.
window id # of group leader: 0xc00021
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
program specified location: 321, 234
program specified size: 506 by 272
window gravity: NorthWest
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = gandalf.zeo-underground
WM_NAME(STRING) = Tip of the Day



xwininfo on JBuilder dialog (correctly sized) using twm:
xwininfo: Window id: 0xc00025 Tip of the Day

  Absolute upper-left X:  323
  Absolute upper-left Y:  257
  Relative upper-left X:  0
  Relative upper-left Y:  21
  Width: 506
  Height: 272
  Depth: 24
  Visual Class: TrueColor
  Border width: 0
  Class: InputOutput
  Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
  Bit Gravity State: ForgetGravity
  Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
  Backing Store State: NotUseful
  Save Under State: yes
  Map State: IsViewable
  Override Redirect State: no
  Corners:  +323+257  -195+257  -195-239  +323-239
  -geometry 506x272+321+234


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ØS.



Re: Testing the JBuilder (java?) oversized dialog problem with other WMs

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard

OK, here's what I've done:
* Applied verbose patch and enabled debugging in blackbox (perhaps I 
shouldn't  have done that ?)
* Started X with nothing but blackbox (Directed output from blackbox to 
file (both STDERR and OUT))
* Opened an aterm
* Launched JBuilder (with personal settings file deleted = default 
vendor setup)
* Exit X windows (from blackbox menu)

The dialog was oversized and also (strangely) refused to be manually 
resized back to normal/minimally wrapped size. I stress again that this 
was with default jbuilder setup. (JBuilder did not have any chance to 
save previous settings, since I renamed the config file) I confirm that 
the settings were reset.

The resulting output from blackbox is attached to this email.

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ØS



bboutput.gz
Description: application/gzip


Re: additional verbosity

2002-07-11 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

Ok, to further track this down, I added a new print much earlier in the
process.  This is the absolute earliest that blackbox is aware of the window
and 100% could have done nothing to affect it.  No X calls have been made on
the client's behalf at this point.

Apply it on top of the previous patch or without it, they are independent.
  

Tried to apply patch, it asked for what file to patch. Sorry, but I have 
very little experience in using the patch command. Perhaps it's 
Blackbox.cc ? Some patch output seemed to indicate this.



BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous usage

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Hi,

Just posting a little issue I have with BlackBox, just to see if 
anyone else is having similar problems.

It concerns version 0.65alpha8:
After about 30-35 hours of operation (samme X session), BlackBox 
suddenly dies for no obvious reason, and thus X exits = I lose unsaved 
work etc etc etc. Is this some kind of memleak problem ? I am not 
experienced with C++ so I wouldn't know, but something is going from 
good - bad in the course of those 30 hours, and in the end, Blackbox 
chooses to end its life. I would like BlackBox to live happily ever 
after (install). =).

This has now happened to me 3 or 4 times.

If someone has any debug tips or anything, I will certainly try those, 
if it helps. (probably does) I know of a tool called gdb, but I have no 
idea how to use it ;). Also, i don't see any core files anywhere, but I 
believe that coredumps are disabled in default Mandrake config for 
normal users ?? Is this right ??
How do I enable coredumps ?

My system is basically an original Mandrake 8.2 installation, with 
certain upgrades.

Regards,
Øyvind Stegard



Re: BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous usage

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Derek Cunningham wrote:

On Mon, Jun10,02 20:58, Øyvind Stegard wrote:
  

Hi,



snip 
  

If someone has any debug tips or anything, I will certainly try those, 
if it helps. 


snip

Recommendation:

Don't let your blackbox session kill your work. I have this in my .xinitrc:


blackbox 

xterm


This way, if blackbox exits... my work is fine...  it's not until 'xterm'
exists that my X session is over.

Also, I've run alpha8 for more than 30 hours without a problem, what apps
are you running?

DC

  

The apps I usually run are: lots of aterms, JBuilder6, Mozilla 1.0, 
LimeWire (java apps with j2sdk1.4), GAIM, bbsmount, bbkeys, bbpager, 
some dockapps (wmitime, wmsmixer and another one for controlling xmms), 
XMMS and The Gimp. Oh, and Emacs .. and probably some more I have 
forgotten...

These apps are running most of the time.



Re: BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous us

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

On 10-Jun-2002 Øyvind Stegard wrote:
  

Hi,

Just posting a little issue I have with BlackBox, just to see if 
anyone else is having similar problems.

It concerns version 0.65alpha8:
After about 30-35 hours of operation (samme X session), BlackBox 
suddenly dies for no obvious reason, and thus X exits = I lose unsaved 
work etc etc etc. Is this some kind of memleak problem ? I am not 
experienced with C++ so I wouldn't know, but something is going from 
good - bad in the course of those 30 hours, and in the end, Blackbox 
chooses to end its life. I would like BlackBox to live happily ever 
after (install). =).




I suspect something else is happening.  You list Java, Mozilla and GAIM in your
application list -- all three of these seem to aggravate bugs in blackbox.

What you want to do is this:

first, build blackbox with debugging information for gdb.  When you run
configure use this command line as a base -- CXXFLAGS=-g -O2 ./configure. 
Add any --prefix or other flags you need.

to enable cores run this before you login -- 'ulimit -c unlimited'.  It is VERY
important that this happens before blackbox is started.

try to save blackbox's output to a file, I try to add messages around known
crash points.

When you have a crash and a core is generated the useful information is
obtained with this command -- gdb /path/to/blackbox /path/to/core.  Once gdb is
running the command to give it is 'bt' which stands for back trace.  This will
tell us where you were in the code when a crash occured.

Also try to be observant of the window manager when it crashes.  What were you
doing right before the crash?  What was the last action you did?  Currently a
major source of headaches is switching workspaces while any one of the 3
applications you listed is active.  Unfortunately I do not run Java apps or
GAIM so I find debugging this a little difficult.

Brad and xOr are currently working on pieces of this puzzle.  We hope to have
it solved soon.

I can be fairly confident in saying that time is not the problem here it is
more likely known bugs that are getting triggered.


  

OK, it is confirmed that TIME is NOT an issue here, like you said. It 
was just the impression I had, caused by coincidences. Just experienced 
another crash when writing this reply =), as a matter of fact.
Like you said, it occured just after I switched desktops. To eliminate 
some more factors: Mozilla and Gaim were the only two apps running now. 
One of them is triggering something, when switching desktops.
I'll try and build blackbox with debugging, but the bug(s) is really 
quite hard to reproduce. Like I've said, I have worked for like 30 hours 
and switching desktops without it ever occuring.

I'll also redirect blackbox output to file..



Re: BlackBox 0.65alpha8 death after 30-35 hours of continuous us

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Jamin W. Collins wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 23:34:45 +0200
Øyvind Stegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

OK, it is confirmed that TIME is NOT an issue here, like you said. It 


(snip)
  

some more factors: Mozilla and Gaim were the only two apps running now. 
One of them is triggering something, when switching desktops.



Just a gut reaction, but I would guess that it's probably Gaim.  I use
Mozilla (Debian testing's 0.9.9) on a fairly regular basis (as I suspect a
few other here do also).  Gaim seems to be the wild card.  Again, just a
gut reaction.

  

Yeah, makes sense, gaim opens windows on many different workspaces (if 
someone sends you a message, the window pops up in the workspace you are 
currently in), and generally use many windows, on many different 
workspaces. Also, GAIM seems to me quite buggy in itself.



Workspace change crash ( ....death after 30-35 hours of contin.....)

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard

I have managed to crash blackbox on workspace change and gotten a core.
Gaim seems to be in the clear, since I was not running GAIM this time.. 
I managed to crash blackbox by randomly and fast changing between all 
workspaces. (by keyboard shortcuts) Java and mozilla was running.

This is what I did afterwards:
$ gdb /usr/local/bin/blackbox ~/core


gdb reports that program was terminated by signal 6, aborted.

(gdb) bt
#0  0x401b6621 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x401b6425 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x401b7a53 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#3  0x401afe12 in __assert_fail () from /lib/libc.so.6
#4  0x0806e7e4 in BScreen::changeWorkspaceID (this=0x80c2ee8, id=0) at 
Workspace.hh:79
#5  0x08090106 in Blackbox::process_event (this=0xb730, 
e=0xb690) at blackbox.cc:660
#6  0x0804d50f in BaseDisplay::eventLoop (this=0xb730) at 
BaseDisplay.cc:299
#7  0x080944af in main (argc=1, argv=0xb944) at main.cc:160
#8  0x401a4280 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6

Anything else I can do to help, please let me know, and I'll try it.



Re: Workspace change crash ( ....death after 30-35 hours of cont

2002-06-10 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

On 10-Jun-2002 Øyvind Stegard wrote:
  

I have managed to crash blackbox on workspace change and gotten a core.
Gaim seems to be in the clear, since I was not running GAIM this time.. 
I managed to crash blackbox by randomly and fast changing between all 
workspaces. (by keyboard shortcuts) Java and mozilla was running.




yep, sounds like the other reports.  What seems to be at the core of it is the
window's settings are not getting synced with its state.


  

It seems like a general bug, I've done some testing (i can reproduce the 
bug almost instantly now):
Run with NO windows open except bbsmount and bbpager + some dockapps:
* Randomly and quickly change workspace: No crash, rock solid.

Run with an aterm(or xterm) open on one of the workspaces:
* Hammer the workspace change keyboard shortcut: Boom, crash after a few 
seconds of wild workspace-change west.

Run with only mozilla:
* Same as with the terminal

... and so on...

leading me to the conclusion that the bug is probably not directly 
affiliated with any special app, just all apps that have a blackbox
window.

How to easily reproduce bug:
* Assign keyboard shortcut to workspace change, like mod+1,2,3,4,5 or 6 
to change between all workspaces.
* Open up one or more regular windows (any app)
* Change workspace quickly, it's very effective to press several of the 
1,2,3... keys at the same time, this really makes blackbox crash fast in 
my system.



Feature request: Position locking of maximised windows

2002-05-29 Thread Øyvind Stegard

Hi,

Just a simple feature request:
How about an option that will keep maximised windows locked in position 
so that they cannot be accidentally moved ?

Regards,
Øyvind Stegard



Re: Feature request: Position locking of maximised windows

2002-05-29 Thread Øyvind Stegard




Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

  On 30-May-2002 yvind Stegard wrote:
  
  
Hi,

Just a simple feature request:
How about an option that will keep maximised windows locked in position 
so that they cannot be "accidentally" moved ?

Regards,
yvind Stegard

  
  
why not just stop accidentally moving them (-:


  

Well, you could put it like that =). But I would look at this as logical
behaviour. When a window is maximised, you seldom want it out of place/moved
in this state, you want the whole thing visible and as big as possible. When,
for instance, you shade maximised windows and such, it sometimes happens
that you move it a little by accident. Placing a lock on the position would
be nice, at least as optional behaviour. Maybe it will happen, who knows
;).

Regards,
. Stegard.





Re: Feature request: Position locking of maximised windows

2002-05-29 Thread Øyvind Stegard




Es Bee Ex wrote:

  On Thu, 30 May 2002 02:51:24 +0200
yvind Stegard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
  
Just a simple feature request:
How about an option that will keep maximised windows locked in position 
so that they cannot be "accidentally" moved ?

  
  
This is an idea I had too, but two other, more user-friendly things could
take its place from my point of view: disable the Maximize bit when you
move a window(then you can just quickly re-maximize it), OR allow
maximized windows to be snapped to the strut/screen edges(allows you to
quickly pop the window back in place after you accidentally move it).

  

This also seems like to good solutions to the problem, I agree.