I didn’t find anything concerning this issue in this forum, but maybe I didn’t search enough…
Well, I’m using fvwm for a while now, and I’ve got a curious problem.
Here’s an example :
*TopBar: (24x1, Colorset 15, Swallow(UseOld,NoKill) cpumon ‘Exec exec xosview -title cpumon +cpu’, Action(Mouse 1) Exec exec aterm -T Top -e htop)
*TopBar: (24x1, Colorset 15, Swallow(UseOld,NoKill) netmon ‘Exec exec xosview -title netmon +net’, Action(Mouse 1) Exec exec aterm -T IfTop -e sudo /usr/sbin/iftop -i eth0 -F my_ip)
When I launch my X session, everything’s fine, when I click one of this swallowed app, they start either htop or iftop.
But after some utilisations (say between 1 and 5), nothing.
I click on the swallowed app and nothing is spawned.
… then you should know that even having that is unpredictable at times.
Yes, I also use IgnoreModifiers, but the result I get from it is
intermittent. I am not able to reproduce your problem, since it works
fine for me – I’ve restarted FVWM several times, ran applications under
it, and each time the Action clicks to FvwmButtons has launched the
appropriate applications.
Humour yourself, and leave the modifiers off, just to see if that really
does cure your problem. If it doesn’t, get FVWM to log to
~/.xsession-errors if it doesn’t already do so, and check for errors
there.
