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 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 on windows), in the
>>> > > chrome
>>> > > browser, choosing "Cast", will pop up a small window that asks the user
>>> > > what
>>> > > device to cast to. Unfortunately in fvwm that little window with those
>>> > > options does not show up.
>>> > > I've tried both with my config, but also with a very fvwm config such
>>> > > as:
>>> > > key c A CM FvwmConsole
>>> > > key r A CM Restart
>>> > > Key u A CM Exec xterm
>>> > > If anyone has a work around, that would be much appreciated, as
>>> > > casting, for
>>> > > better or worse, is very useful to me.
>>> > Well, if it's a transient window, it will (by default) popup along side
>>> > the
>>> > parent window. That said, you can try:
>>> > BugOpts ExplainWindowPlacement On
>>> > in your ~/.fvwm2rc file, and monitor stderr to see what FVMM thinks of
>>> > your
>>> > missing window.
>>> Thanks, I've tried that.
>>> Doesn't show anything (I know that option is working, as I get the debug
>>> info for other windows). As pointed out in another email, that "cast" window
>>> might indeed be a chrome internal window... what bothers me though, is why
>>> it shows up in other window managers.
>> I haven't tried another window manager, but for what it's worth, the
>> cast window does not show up for me in google-chrome.
> Thank you for checking!
No trouble!
>> By the way, are you running these different window managers on the
>> same Linux distro? Or is it possible you are using fvwm on one Linux,
>> and other window managers on a different Linux distro?
> I have done these check on the same machine, with the same installation of
> chrome (i.e just long into a different WM).
> A few window managers i checked: icewm, lxde, gnome (ubuntu's 18.04 default
> desktop), ubuntu's winland desktop thing. All work as expected.
> BTW, I'm running the latest github version 2 master branch of fvwm. Which
> are you running?
I tried this with google-chrome-81.0.4044.113 / fvwm-2.6.6+git on
Slackware64-14.2 as well as google-chrome-83.0.4103.61 / fvwm-2.6.9 on
Slackware64-current.
The 2.6.6+git is probably (memory fails, I installed it in Sept 2017)
a version from git around when 2.6.6 was the latest and greatest.
If I get a chance to try another wm on these systems I'll follow-up.
Jim
