On September 21, 2018 11:35 PM, David Wright wrote: >> That sounds like a different problem: a race between fvwm and the >> xterms over which order they start in. The manner in which the race >> affects me is that my (open) xterms get mapped all over the place >> instead of where I want them placed. The fix is simple except that >> the package required never made it past squeeze, so you'd need to >> visit the archives, specifically:
On Saturday, September 22, 2018 1:55 AM, Nicolas George responded: > The real fix is even simpler: start your X11 clients from Fvwm's > InitFunction, not from .xinitrc. Good idea. But I (original poster) just tried it, and once again the icon for the xterm appeared as a live screenshot instead of smplayer.xpm, which I had defined (for testing purposes) in ~/.fvwm/config. Including "Test (Init)" in the InitFunction didn't help. Thanks.
