On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 02:20:13PM +0100, Viktor Griph wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > >Hi, > > [Please retain the CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > so that the Debian BTS has a record of your input] > > > > This was reported by a Debian user. > > > > Recent versions of fvwm, while being able to detect other > >versions of fvwm currently running: > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >__> fvwm > >[FVWM][SetupICCCM2]: <<ERROR>> another ICCCM 2.0 compliant WM is running, > >try -replace > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >are unable to detect other window managers.(Tested with ratpoison and > >woody's icewm, sarge's icewm, icewm-gnome, wm2, qvwm and > >enlightment. Also fluxbox, blackbox, ion3, xfwm4, wmaker and twm, > >making this almost every other window manager other than fvwm > >itself). > > > > Older versions of fvwm used to display this warning: > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >[FVWM][CatchRedirectError]: <<ERROR>> another WM is running > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > But the newer ones do not, for reasons I could not debug. This > >is a regression, and the other window managers are able to detect > >fvwm and refuse to run. > > > > Please see http://bugs.debian.org/328621 for details. > > > > manoj > > > > I've done some tests and belive that this bug is due to a change in X with > XOrg 6.8. I've tested fvwm 2.5.16, 2.5.10 and 2.5.4 from the 2.5.x branch, > and all have the bug. However I'm sure that the bug was not present when I > used 2.5.4 (and probably not 2.5.10) actively. Thus it must be something > else that has changed since then. The bug is however not present in > 2.4.19, so it must be soemthing that has changed in the early 2.5.x > versions, which I weren't able to compile now.
No, the only change since at least 2.3.0 was introducing the -replace option. We haven't touched this code in *ages*. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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