Re: fvwm and casting from chrome

2020-05-28 Thread Peter G
On 5/28/20 8:00 AM, Jim Diamond wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 21:58 (-0500), Peter G wrote: On 5/27/20 9:37 PM, Jim Diamond wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 21:32 (-0500), Peter G wrote: On 5/27/20 4:58 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 04:41:08PM -0500, peter g wrote: Hi

Re: fvwm and casting from chrome

2020-05-27 Thread Peter G
On 5/27/20 9:37 PM, Jim Diamond wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 21:32 (-0500), Peter G wrote: On 5/27/20 4:58 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 04:41:08PM -0500, peter g wrote: Hi Everyone: Hello! i have a frustrating issue with fvwm and casting from google's chrome,

Re: fvwm and casting from chrome

2020-05-27 Thread Peter G
On 5/27/20 4:58 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 04:41:08PM -0500, peter g wrote: Hi Everyone: Hello! i have a frustrating issue with fvwm and casting from google's chrome, that maybe somebody has a workaround for. Normally, under any other WM i've tried (and also

fvwm and casting from chrome

2020-05-27 Thread peter g
Hi Everyone: i have a frustrating issue with fvwm and casting from google's chrome, that maybe somebody has a workaround for. Normally, under any other WM i've tried (and also on windows), in the chrome browser, choosing "Cast", will pop up a small window that asks the user what device to ca

Re: [fvwmorg/fvwm] b1912e: Fix disappearing windows.

2016-12-17 Thread Peter G
> > Changed paths: > M fvwm/events.c > > Log Message: > --- > Fix disappearing windows. > > oh, just noticed this - thanks for tackling this issue. I've had occasional problems with "disappearing" windows for a long time now. In my case, I would bring them to visible areas by ru

Re: Removing libstroke support?

2016-10-18 Thread Peter G
Does anybody really use libstroke support? I do. It's something i could easily live without... but I do like it on occasion. It's resonsible for > quite some hardly readably code, and I suspect nobody uses it > anymore. If there's a need for mouse gesture or touchpad support, > there must ce

Re: Issues with how fvwm handles certain (3d) applications

2016-05-09 Thread Peter G
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Stephen Dennison wrote: > > I wonder if this is a graphics driver issue. >> > > It reminds me of the kind of symptoms you can see when running compiz, > actually. Though for me the slowdown is with the 3d accelerated program > when compiz is running, not FVWM. > >

Issues with how fvwm handles certain (3d) applications

2016-05-08 Thread Peter G
First of all, thanks to everyone involved in the latest batch of changes - it's great to see fvwm still being actively worked on! I've had this issue I'm about to describe for some years now, and was wondering if others have come across it as well. The problem is that when I open applications that

cvs server up?

2015-01-30 Thread Peter G
is anyone having a problem grabbing files from the cvs server right now? i get this: $ cvs -d :pserver:anonym...@cvs.fvwm.org:/home/cvs/fvwm checkout -r branch-2_6 fvwm cvs [checkout aborted]: connect to cvs.fvwm.org(129.7.128.165):2401 failed: No route to host

Re: a few bugs and an update

2015-01-25 Thread Peter G
Thanks for the quick response. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: > > You can coerce this through various means. I suspect in your case > though those applications are starting due to program-specified hints. > That's usually typical. Try: > > Style foo !PPosition > > This

a few bugs and an update

2015-01-25 Thread Peter G
Just wanted to provide a quick update and report a few bugs that have I been observing. I am running the latest version from the cvs. Some of you may remember, a few months ago I had a big issue with maple and its behavior of flooding fvwm with thousands of events: https://www.mail-archive.com/fvw

Re: CVS tadam: Fft: Fix compiler warnings

2014-12-28 Thread Peter G
On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 6:52 PM, Thomas Adam wrote: > Fixed. > > yup, thanks.

Re: CVS tadam: Fft: Fix compiler warnings

2014-12-28 Thread Peter G
No that I can reproduce though. Try again: > > % cvs up -C > > this does not work. I also tried a clean check out of branch-2_6 and get the same issue when compiling. weird

Re: CVS tadam: Fft: Fix compiler warnings

2014-12-28 Thread Peter G
just fyi... i think there might be an issue: make[2]: Entering directory `/blah/fvwm/src/fvwm-2.6.x/libs' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -I/usr/include/librsvg-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-19 Thread Peter G
> fvwm stays barely usable when the application generates 20.000.000 > ...NAME... PropertyNotify events (machine with four cores). The > X server blocks one cpu at 100%, fvwm uses 50% to 60% on another > core, and the application uses about 12% on a third. This looks > pretty good to me - as long

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-19 Thread Peter G
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > I wonder why this bug has never showed up before. It's been in > the code for ages. > that is strange indeed... it must have been after 2.6.5 though as I don't see this problem with that release.

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-19 Thread Peter G
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:17:55PM -0400, Peter G wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Dominik Vogt > wrote: > > (gdb) p *t > > Thanks. And now? > works fine now - thanks!!.

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-19 Thread Peter G
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 03:11:26PM -0400, Peter G wrote: > > I still seem to be getting the same thing: > > Hm. Can you post a print of the window structure in the crashing > function, please? > > sure: (gdb)

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-19 Thread Peter G
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > #0 0x0046fcff in CMD_WindowList (cond_rc=0x7fff5fcbde50, > > exc=0x15b4b70, action=0x15ad160 " Function DeiconifyAndRaise") > > at windowlist.c:979 > > 979 dheight = (dheight - > > t->hints.

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-19 Thread Peter G
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > If fvwm crashes I need a stack trace from the core file: > > yup, sorry for not providing that. Now showing below. Info about DeiconifyAndRaise is in the last email. me@mycomp:~$ gdb ~/fvwm/install/bin/fvwm ~/core GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-18 Thread Peter G
Hi: so just a quick follow up. The patch and the update work great as far as maple is concerned... I have not experienced maple not loading properly since the switch. I do see however a small issue with 'Iconify off' on some windows (but the issue is probably deeper). Say I iconify a window, and

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-16 Thread Peter G
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > How does the attached experimental patch work for you? > > So far it seems to work!... I tried to start maple 30+ times and had no problems. I switched to 2.6.5 and "failed" 6 times in 20 starts. This is on a computer with a slowest hard dr

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-16 Thread Peter G
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > If I disable the debug output, fvwm can throw away 40 > alternating PropertyNotify events for WM_NAME and WM_ICON_NAME in > about 30 seconds at about 35% cpu (on my machine, of course). Not > This would probably already make a broken ma

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-15 Thread Peter G
> Can you please try out the latest cvs code wogether with the debug > patch attached to this message? I need to see some stretch of the > log again (only the part with the ..._NAME atoms, the rest is > irrelevant). > > Thanks for the update and the patch. Unfortunately it's not working form me.

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-14 Thread Peter G
> > around line 246 i skip a lot of the same events... > > > > then after line 511 i kill maple. > > I assume you mean line 411? > > no, i really mean 511. Whenever you see a like like: (gnome-settings-daemon:2443): color-plugin-WARNING **: Done switch to new account, reload devices that's when I

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-14 Thread Peter G
they are running on the same machine. About to send you the log with the second round of changes. On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > Hm, are fvwm and/or the application running on the same machine as > the X server or over a network? > > Ciao > > Dominik ^_^ ^_^ > > -- > > D

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-14 Thread Peter G
> > dispatch_event: event type 28 > > HandlePropertyNotify: send_event 0, window 0x2e00043, atom 133 > '_NET_WM_NAME', time 187328, state 0 > > dispatch_event: event type 28 > > HandlePropertyNotify: send_event 0, window 0x2e00043, atom 25 > 'WM_ICON_NAME', time 187328, state 0 > > dispatch_event:

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-14 Thread Peter G
Hi: Here is an update. To play with things I have been using the 2.6 branch from the cvs. First, let me note that even with the same maple worksheet, from time to maple loads correctly (this is without any obvious changes to anything). In that case, I can see all the cores of my CPU spike up for

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-14 Thread Peter G
thanks taking the time to look at this, and for the pointers! On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Dominik Vogt wrote: > Could you place printfs in events.c in the My_XNextEvent() function > and print out the event type? That should identify the mass of > events that are coming in, probably just t

Re: fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-13 Thread Peter G
> > So attach gdb to the fvwm process and show a backtrace of what fvwm is > doing. > > -- Thomas Adam > > I show the backtrace below (at the bottom). As I mentioned fvwm is just stuck in the main event loop. $sudo gdb ./fvwm/install/bin/fvwm 18419 GNU gdb (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4-2012.04-0ubuntu2.1)

fvwm with java yet again (maple process)

2014-09-13 Thread Peter G
Hi: my issue seems similar to the one presented here: https://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm-workers@fvwm.org/msg03376.html but with maple. In most cases opening and using maple works fine, but with some worksheets, in particular those that may contain many plots, fvwm "freezes" when maple is loading.