On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 05:44:49PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > Hello > > I use the Task Bar and I have set it to check Maildirs in my home directory > for new mail. When the window manager starts the Task Bar disappears after a > few minutes, i'm assuming this is when the Maildir is first checked. > > I wondered if anyone else has experienced this problem and if so, do you know > how I can fix it. I'm sorry but I do not know of any debugging technique to > provide more information.
You can check your $HOME/.xsession-errors (or stdout of your xserver) to see if any errors are spit out. Also if the process FvwmTaskBar isn't running when it disapeared its crashing. You are probabaly right about why its crashing, but will have to debug the paticulars. For the most part FvwmTaskBar is no longer supported. If you want a task bar I would suggest mixing FvwmIconMan (for the task bar) + FvwmButtons as a container/pannel you can use to contain the start menu/clock/mail notification/system tray etc -- there are many examples of these floating around. Check the forums. > > The version of fvwm I am using is 2.7.0 built using the FreeBSD port process. > afiak fvwm is not going to continue using the stable/unstable branch split. Thus don't use 2.7.0 but use 2.6.1 instead (the offical branch is 2.6). Not sure about any paticulars on the FreeBSD port process but 2.7.0 is the same as the 2.6.0 release. jaimos
