FVWM: A couple of issues with Fvwm-2.6

[Olivier Nicole]

Hi,

I updated from Fvwm-1 to Fvwm-2.6. Yes, that's a big jump.

My environment is mostly working as before except I noticed:

- when I iconify certain xterm, they display and icon or the get to
display xterm with "unreadable" fonts.
If the xterm is running on the same host as fvwm, xterm changes to
unreadable fonts and get parked in the iconbox
If the xterm is running on a different host than fvwm, xterm is
changed to the right icon (as defined in xrdb) and parked in the icon
box

- when I open a menu with the middle button (mouse wheel) and I move
left or right, the menu is changed to a window, with ful decoration

Thanks if you have some explanation for the above.

Best regards,

Olivier

[Thomas Adam]

Post by Olivier Nicole
- when I iconify certain xterm, they display and icon or the get to
display xterm with "unreadable" fonts.

See the IconFont style or else it's a DPI issue with your XServer?

Post by Olivier Nicole
If the xterm is running on the same host as fvwm, xterm changes to
unreadable fonts and get parked in the iconbox

Not sure what you're referring to here.

Post by Olivier Nicole
If the xterm is running on a different host than fvwm, xterm is
changed to the right icon (as defined in xrdb) and parked in the icon
box

Again, not sure what you're referring to here.

Post by Olivier Nicole
- when I open a menu with the middle button (mouse wheel) and I move
left or right, the menu is changed to a window, with ful decoration

Yes, that's due to TearOffMenus -- see "man fvwm" about that.

You need to ask actual questions, and what you'd rather have happen in
the case of your XTerm icon handling, since at the moment they're
nothing more than observations.

-- Thomas Adam

[Olivier Nicole]

Thanks Thomas,

Let me explain in ore details.

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by Olivier Nicole
- when I iconify certain xterm, they display and icon or the get to
display xterm with "unreadable" fonts.

See the IconFont style or else it's a DPI issue with your XServer?

"Unreadable" is one of the default font size in xterm. When you
CTRL-Right click in xterm, it displays a list of font size, including
"unreadable" (very tiny, like 2x2 pixel/character)

When xterm is running on the same host as fvwm, the xterm is not
properly iconified, instead it is changed to font size unreadable.

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by Olivier Nicole
If the xterm is running on the same host as fvwm, xterm changes to
unreadable fonts and get parked in the iconbox

Not sure what you're referring to here.

Post by Olivier Nicole
If the xterm is running on a different host than fvwm, xterm is
changed to the right icon (as defined in xrdb) and parked in the icon
box

Again, not sure what you're referring to here.

Post by Olivier Nicole
- when I open a menu with the middle button (mouse wheel) and I move
left or right, the menu is changed to a window, with ful decoration

Yes, that's due to TearOffMenus -- see "man fvwm" about that.

That worked, thank you, I had to
Mouse 2 MT A -
to remove Tear off action from mouse button 2.

Post by Thomas Adam
You need to ask actual questions, and what you'd rather have happen in
the case of your XTerm icon handling, since at the moment they're
nothing more than observations.

My question is "Why is that happening?" and How to prevent that?"
Well, I guess that is two questions then :)

Best regards,

Olivier

Post by Thomas Adam
-- Thomas Adam

[Dan Espen]

Post by Olivier Nicole
Thanks Thomas,
Let me explain in ore details.

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by Olivier Nicole
- when I iconify certain xterm, they display and icon or the get to
display xterm with "unreadable" fonts.

See the IconFont style or else it's a DPI issue with your XServer?

"Unreadable" is one of the default font size in xterm. When you
CTRL-Right click in xterm, it displays a list of font size, including
"unreadable" (very tiny, like 2x2 pixel/character)
When xterm is running on the same host as fvwm, the xterm is not
properly iconified, instead it is changed to font size unreadable.

You've got xterm active icons configured.
Check the xterm man page.

[Olivier Nicole]

Thank you Dan,

Post by Dan Espen

Post by Olivier Nicole

Post by Thomas Adam

Post by Olivier Nicole
- when I iconify certain xterm, they display and icon or the get to
display xterm with "unreadable" fonts.

See the IconFont style or else it's a DPI issue with your XServer?

"Unreadable" is one of the default font size in xterm. When you
CTRL-Right click in xterm, it displays a list of font size, including
"unreadable" (very tiny, like 2x2 pixel/character)
When xterm is running on the same host as fvwm, the xterm is not
properly iconified, instead it is changed to font size unreadable.

You've got xterm active icons configured.
Check the xterm man page.

That was it.

Best regards,

Olivier