Re: Broken WM change

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:43:46 +0000
Thomas Leonard <talex5 <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/3/18 Abrolag <abrolag <at> users.sourceforge.net>:
> > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:31:17 +0000
> > Abrolag <abrolag <at> users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:38:55 +0000
> >> Abrolag <abrolag <at> users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I've been using OpenBox for a long time now, but just recently
> >> > thought I'd have a look again at other WMs but everything seems
> >> > horribly unstable.
> >> >
> >> > I can reasonably reliable switch between OpenBox and Kwin, but
> >> > OroboROX, Sawfish, xfwm4 all crash. In doing so they disable WM
> >> > selection and the only way I can recover control is by loging out and
> >> > back in again.
> 
> How do they disable switching? Is the process still running (so
> ROX-Session doesn't prompt for a new one) or does the prompt get
> burried under other windows, etc? Putting some print statements in
> might help track it down.

OK, first thing is I hadn't noticed the --replace operation (must be
getting slow, when did that arrive). If I untick this then all WMs
behave correctly. BTW Tony, the latest version of OpenBox does respond
correctly.

The problem occurs when you incorrectly have this option set and the
WM you're changing to can't handle it, then no matter whether you click
OK or Cancel the WM change locks up. However if you, instead fill the
text entry with the name of a WM that can handle --replace the change
will be performed.

I tried looking at the entries using KPM but don't know which process to
look for.

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