Re: FVWM: fvwm through tightvnc: windows disappear or are hidden
KARR, DAVID dk0...@att.com writes: I'm new to fvwm, although I used X11 a lot in the previous millenium. I'm connecting from my Win7 laptop to an Ubuntu box with tightvnc, running tightvncserver on the ubuntu box and TightVNCViewer on the Win7 laptop. I get to the ubuntu box through an intermediate jumpserver, and I have a local port forward so the Win7 laptop can use the vnc port. In my ~/.vnc/xstartup file, the last line runs exec /usr/bin/fvwm. When I run the client and connect to the port, I can get to the fvwm context menu and create an xterm, and from there create other windows. The strange thing is that after I've been working with this for a few minutes, and then perhaps switch the focus to other windows on my Win7 box and then later return to the vnc client window, I find that all I see is a grey fvwm background. I can create another xterm window, and if I do ps -elf | grep xterm, I see the original xterm window, not to mention other windows that I've created. Also, if I select Restart fvwm from the context menu, I briefly see all the other windows that I've created, and then they disappear. I've gone through this sequence a few times now, and it's repeatable. Why might those windows be disappearing? Is this a fvwm problem, or a TightVNCViewer problem? I'm replying to your first post, but I've read the other 2. Because you saw windows in the pager, I'm guessing you moved them to another page or desk somehow. Could be you minimized them and had no icons available too. When you go through the auto configuration step, Fvwm creates a $HOME/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc file. Read it to see how to create key bindings and to see if you have bindings to toggle full screen. If you don't already have one, they are easy to create. You can access the built in menu with F1 (or Shift F1) if unshifted F1 got assigned. As you might be catching on, Fvwm is for people that like total control of their system. Good luck. -- Dan Espen
Re: FVWM: fvwm through tightvnc: windows disappear or are hidden
-Original Message- From: KARR, DAVID Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 2:25 PM To: fvwm@lists.math.uh.edu Subject: FVWM: fvwm through tightvnc: windows disappear or are hidden I'm new to fvwm, although I used X11 a lot in the previous millenium. I'm connecting from my Win7 laptop to an Ubuntu box with tightvnc, running tightvncserver on the ubuntu box and TightVNCViewer on the Win7 laptop. I get to the ubuntu box through an intermediate jumpserver, and I have a local port forward so the Win7 laptop can use the vnc port. In my ~/.vnc/xstartup file, the last line runs exec /usr/bin/fvwm. When I run the client and connect to the port, I can get to the fvwm context menu and create an xterm, and from there create other windows. The strange thing is that after I've been working with this for a few minutes, and then perhaps switch the focus to other windows on my Win7 box and then later return to the vnc client window, I find that all I see is a grey fvwm background. I can create another xterm window, and if I do ps -elf | grep xterm, I see the original xterm window, not to mention other windows that I've created. Also, if I select Restart fvwm from the context menu, I briefly see all the other windows that I've created, and then they disappear. I've gone through this sequence a few times now, and it's repeatable. Why might those windows be disappearing? Is this a fvwm problem, or a TightVNCViewer problem? I suppose I've found a workaround for this, but I still have no idea what was happening here. I noticed that there was a menu item to configure my .fvwmrc file. I selected all of the optional modules and restart fvwm. When it started back up, I found I had more options for seeing what windows were available, including a right-click menu that let me select particular windows, including the ones that weren't even visible as thumbnails in the virtual panner area (I don't know what fvwm calls that). With that option, I was able to restore the missing windows.
