Xorg+twm worked fine while Xorg+quartz-wm didn't. 4. This
> usage pattern used to work, although I can't seem to
> recreate a working configuration right now.
On my power book ssh-ing into a linux box, I can run wx and wxagg
examples, and other backends as well.
How can I determine which window manager (twm vs quartz-wm) I am
running?
JDH
Thanks for your reply.
On my power book ssh-ing into a linux box, I can run wx and wxagg
examples, and other backends as well.
I'd be happy to find that the problem is in my local configuration;
I just can't seem to figure out what to tweak locally.
How can I determine which window manager (twm vs quartz-wm) I am
running?
I usually just do something like "ps auwx | grep wm" and look for
a process that I recognize as a window manager. (Note this won't
work if you're using one of those "modern" window managers that
don't suffix their program name with "wm", like metacity or blackbox).
If you're using the Apple-supplied X11 server then as a default
you would be using quartz-wm. If this is working for you then
the problem is almost certainly on my end.
JDH
Thanks again,
d
On Apr 2, 2005, at 6:23 AM, John Hunter wrote:
> Xorg+twm worked fine while Xorg+quartz-wm didn't. 4. This
> usage pattern used to work, although I can't seem to
> recreate a working configuration right now.On my power book ssh-ing into a linux box, I can run wx and wxagg
examples, and other backends as well.How can I determine which window manager (twm vs quartz-wm) I am
running?
FWIW, twm seems to be the only WM that works for me.
I tried Xorg with fvwm, windowmaker, metacity, and blackbox -
none of these seem to work. (All of this is through fink.)
On Apr 2, 2005, at 6:23 AM, John Hunter wrote:
JDH
The culprit was the fact that I have a dual display setup
where the two displays aren't of the same size. This
made my display region not rectangular, and in particular
I had a undisplayable "hole" in the upper left-hand region
of the rectangular bounding box of my two screens.
Hence when a X11 window was auto-mapped to somewhere
near +0+0, it was rendered into a void. I'm not sure if
the "fault" is with XDarwin or the window managers.
The reason twm seemed to "work" was because twm
doesn't automap any new windows unless explicitly
set by -geometry, and initializes the window placement
operation with the current mouse cursor location.
I'm surprised I hadn't been bit by this previously, but
then I've never entirely understood the window auto-
placement algorithm used by most windowmanagers.
d
On Apr 4, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Daishi Harada wrote:
FWIW, twm seems to be the only WM that works for me.
I tried Xorg with fvwm, windowmaker, metacity, and blackbox -
none of these seem to work. (All of this is through fink.)