Re: Obscure IDL / sawfish window manager interactions

[Craig Markwardt <craigmnet(at)cow.physics.wisc.edu>]

I've never gotten (and still can't get) IDL draw windows to behave
properly under FVWM, my window manager.  In my case, the window
manager gets very confused about the Z-order of the window.

I believe that the RSI web page has a knowledge tech tip about this,
but they claim that it's a bug in the window manager.  That's strange,
every other window works fine, so I always wondered if it was a
problem with IDL.

Craig

Nathaniel Livesey <livesey@mls.jpl.nasa.gov> writes:


> Dear All,
> 
>    This is an interesting one.  I'm running IDL 5.4 on a RedHat6.2
> machine with XFree v4.0.2, and the latest Helix-Gnome with the sawfish
> window manager.  When ever I put up an IDL draw window, I cannot focus
> it or move it.  The only thing I can do is to `shade' it (i.e. hide
> all but the title bar) using the gnome toolbar.  Once I've done that I
> can unshade it and move it, until I write to it (e.g. am IDL plot
> command) from which point it's stuck again!
> 
>    This seems to happen also with IDL 5.3.  However it does not happen
> if I create windows using the widget commands (even if all the widget
> contains is a draw widget).  xwininfo doesn't seem to spot any
> difference between an ordinary draw window which doesn't work and a
> widget based one which does so that's no help.
> 
>    I've probably let myself into this by running the latest bleeding
> edge stuff I realise.  It seems like some bizarre interaction between
> IDL and the window manager, what is IDL telling the window manager
> that should make it treat its windows any differently?
> 
>    Anyone got any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nathaniel
> 
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