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From: jdi@franz.COM (John Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Awm infinite loop problem revisited
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Date: 23 Jun 89 22:01:41 GMT
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Your message:

    A couple days ago I posted a question about an awm problem I have noticed,
    wherein awm will go into an infinite loop occasionally when f.iconify is
    invoked from a mouse button.  I asked if anybody else had checked into it,
    but didn't get any affirmative responses, so I started digging, and I have
    an idea as to what is happening.

    The following line appears in my .awmrc file:

    	f.iconify=	m	:window|icon:	left down

    ...

    Jonathan Corbet
    National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
    corbet@stout.ucar.edu
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I had the same problem, but was told it didn't exist.  :-)

Here is the fix:

*** /tmp/Iconify.c      Fri Jun 23 14:50:07 1989
- - --- Iconify.c   Tue Feb 28 13:48:21 1989
***************
*** 230,234 ****
          status = XWarpPointer (dpy, None, to,
                                 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                 toInfo.width / 2, toInfo.height / 2);
!      Leave(FALSE)
  }
- - --- 230,234 ----
          status = XWarpPointer (dpy, None, to,
                                 0, 0, 0, 0,
                                 toInfo.width / 2, toInfo.height / 2);
!      Leave(TRUE)
  }


I don't know how this fix interacts with iconification if you use the up
event as another poster suggested.  But it does fix the problem if you
use down events.

	-- John Irwin, jdi@franz.com