I ran FvwmDebug and tried to see what's going on. I found that for firefox the normal fullscreen procedure is: Destroy_Window -> Add_New_Window. But in the case that the fullscreen does not come up, Destroy_WIndow is called but the subsequent Add_New_Window never shows up in the debug output. Either firefox does not send the request or fvwm ignores the request.
I suspect this is an issue of fvwm becuase the fullscreen mode runs ok even in the bare X server, i.e.,
in the "Just xterm".
I also upgraded to 2.5.10, but the problem persists.
By the way, I use the gtk2-xft build of firefox and Xorg 6.7.0r.
Best
Junren
From: Xiaoyong Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FVWM: Firefox fullscreen mode: an observation Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 09:02:19 +0800
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:43:37 -0400, Junren Shi And Xin Hu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I encountered an issue reported ealier in this list but there seems to
> be no solution. The symptom is that: pressing F11 in firefox to enter the
> full screen mode will make it disappear from the desktop and the windowlist.
> The program keeps running but it just cannot be seen. Sometimes the
> fullscreen may come up but usually the window will eventually disappear
> after switching F11 a number times.
>
> I am running firefox 0.91 under linux (Fedora core 2) and the fvwm
> version is 2.5.8 rpm downloaded from the main website. The fullscreen mode
> runs ok in every other window managers including the old MWM -- but not in
> fvwm.
>
> A related issue: invoking View->Toolbars->Customize , the
> Customization window also disappears and nowhere to find.
>
> I have an observation: If I start firefox using "strace -f firefox"
> (to trace the system calls), then everything will be ok -- including the
> fullscreen mode and the customization window.
>
> Apparently "strace -f firefox" will greatly slowdown the firefox
> process. My theory is that the bug originates from a tricky timing and
> scheduling issue. In the normal running of firefox, fvwm may be not able to
> keep up the speed of firefox and response its request in a timely manner.
> But with "strace -f firefox" , the firefox will run slowly enough so that
> fvwm can catch up.
>
> Hope this will help to nail down the problem and fix it.
>
> Best
>
> Junren
>
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I've tried this but haven't encounter any problem except changing of original
position of firefox.
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