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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson [Animal])
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: GWM under OW2.0?
Message-ID: <29184@fs1.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 91 21:04:28 GMT
References: <26960@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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tynor@prism.gatech.EDU (Steve Tynor) writes:

>I've built the X11R4 version of GWM1.7 under OW2.0. I'm having the
>following problems:

>	1) Whenever a window is killed (whether self-induced as in
>	   exiting a shell within an xterm or using the KILL option on
>	   the window manager frame menu), I get 5 or 6 "GWM: Bad Window
>	   123456" (where 12345 is the window ID) errors on the console.

Yes, I've noticed this bug also.  Occasionally it goes far enough to
hang gwm, although this could be that i'm running gwm1.6.

>	2) The Sun-supplied OL applications (cm, cmdtool, shelltool, dbxtool,
>	   etc.) are not properly decorated by the WM - they all start
>	   up in the upper left corner with no borders etc. 

Hmm- the thing you have to remember here is that openwin is actually
two servers in one - a X11 server, and a sunview server.  If you use a
window manager other than olwm, that window manager won't know about
the sunview windows -- won't recognize them, can't do anything with
them, etc. etc.  While this is a nuisance, i've found the benifits of
gwm outweigh the disadvantage of this, since I only occasionally use
sunview applications (framemaker is the only one, actually).

>I'd like to use gwm as my window manager, but I need to be able to use
>(at least) dbxtool...  Has anyone else run into this problem?

Hm.  Easy solution is to run xdbx.  :)  

>    Steve Tynor
>    Georgia Tech Research Institute
>    tynor@prism.gatech.edu

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