Re: sawfish has lost a window.

[Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl>]

Teika Kazura said:     (by the date of Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:27:26 +0900 (JST))

> Janek, isn't it overflow from X's 16-bit coordinates?

rather not. I have reduced the number of my vievports in order to not
exceed the 16bit boundary.

Jeremy Hankins said:     (by the date of Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:27:41 -0500)

> Janek Kozicki <janek_listy wp pl> writes:
> > And we have time to debug it.
> 
> Do you still have time?

yes, plenty.

> 
> > When X starts, I have following line in my rox autorun script:
> >
> >   xterm -geom 95x15+3520+685 -fg gray -bg black -T last -e watch -n25 "last |
> >   grep -v -e \"janek *pts/[0-9]* *:0.0\"" &
> >
> > It shows me last logins, except for me logging to X. The window is
> > titled "last", due to `-T last` argument.
> 
> Does:
> 
> (get-window-by-name "last")

janek atak:~$ sawfish-client 
sawfish 1.6.3.1, Copyright (C) 1999-2000 John Harper
sawfish comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the file COPYING

Enter `,help' to list commands.
user> (get-window-by-name "last")
()
user> 


> 
> Give you anything, from sawfish-client?  That should retrieve the window
> if sawfish is managing it (even if it doesn't show up in the windows
> menu).  If it does return a window you could try:
> 
> (display-window (get-window-by-name "last"))
> 
> >         0x3000024 "last": ("xterm" "XTerm")  574x199+2+18  +-22078+703
> 

user> (display-window (get-window-by-name "last"))
()


> Does the location change as you change viewports?  I presume that that's
> what the "+2+18" is.

so it seems that sawfish for some reason stopped managing it.
 
> > I don't know what else should I/can I do.
> >
> > The goal is to eliminate this behaviour in sawfish ;-)
> 
> Yes... :P

I rarely restart my workstation, so we can have even few months to
track that down. Given that my GPU won't screw up (which happens roughly
every six months of uptime).

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