I'm experiencing the bug described in this old post:
http://lists.windowmaker.org/dev/msg02501.html
I am running 0.95.7. (I see 0.95.8 is out now, but I didn't see
anything in the ChangeLog about this bug.) Has anyone had any new ideas
about how to fix or work around this? It's been hard avoiding using any
programs that change the screen resolution with RandR events, since
that's something that lots of modern Linux apps expect to be able to do.
I'm especially curious about the symptoms described in the original post
-- that when a program tries to go full screen in a resolution different
than the desktop had been running in, the screen goes black and a
WindowMaker title bar appears at the top, but there is no mouse pointer.
I get these exact symptoms also. Also, if you blindly use the keyboard
to quit out of the fullscreen program, when you come back, some dock
icons are now repositioned to the bottom of the screen, and some have
vanished completely from your configuration. The desktop can only be
restored by logging out and then recovering the entire ~/GNUstep/ folder
from a recent backup. Simply logging out and logging back in without
recovering from a ~/GNUstep folder backup will not fix it, and your dock
will still be screwed up.
The net effect of this is that if you ever run a program that does a
fullscreen resolution switch with RandR in WindowMaker, it will trash
your desktop configuration badly enough that you'll need backups to
recover your setup.
If I disable xrandr support but leave xinerama in, will it still know to
position my Clip according to the dimensions of my multiple monitor
setup, even without the xrandr support option turned on? I'm wondering
if maybe the workaround here is to manually do a restart of WindowMaker
myself when there's an RandR resolution switch instead of having
WindowMaker try to do it.
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