Re: Window manager warning: Broken client ...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 12:37, Serge Matovic wrote:
> Hello all:
> Just installed Slackware 9.1 and Gnome 2.4 and love
> it. But I get this warning message in the xterm after
> starting Gnome (by typing gnome-session):
> 
> "Window manager warning: Broken client! Window
> 0x40000e (login) changed client leader window or SM
> client ID"
> 
> I'm just curious why I get the above message.

The ICCCM specification forbids changing the client leader window or SM
client ID on mapped windows, but xterm seems to break the spec in this
respect.

Havoc