On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:11:38PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > Mikhael Goikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 21 Sep 2003 15:43:41 -0400, Ian Hutchinson wrote: > > > > > > netscape -iconic > > > > > > works fine under metacity (for example) but not fvwm (using 4.79 version > > > of netscape for speed reasons under Red Hat Linux 8.0). > > > > > > Under fvwm [fvwm 2.5.7 compiled on May 30 2003 at 20:29:15 > > > with support for: ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, PNG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text, > > > Xinerama, XRender, XFT, NLS] the netscape always pops open its first > > > window. It looks as if it tries to start iconic but then for some reason > > > deiconifies straight away. > > > > > > I read that the fvwm Inconic setting does not work for netscape, but that > > > netscape -iconic does. I have tried all combinations and none works. > > > > > > Anyone have a fix? > > > > With fvwm-2.5.8 (from cvs) and Netscape 3, "netscape -iconic" works > > without problems. It is started iconic. > > > > If you start fvwm without any configuration, like "fvwm -f no-config", > > does "netscape -iconic" work? f it does not work, it is possible that you > > run some netscape wrapper script that discards its arguments. > > > > Alternativelly, it is possible to start any netscape iconic by adding: > > > > Style Navigator StartIconic > > > > But it causes all new subwindows to be started iconified too. > > I think you need Netscape 4. (I have 4.78). > It starts iconic, but uniconifies itself soon afterward.
I can reproduce the problem, but I don't think we can do much about it. I see the netscape icon appear, but it deiconifies itself immediately. I don't think we can do anything about it. Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
