Intermittant Window Focus Issue

Hello All,
Just starting to dig into fvwm and have an issue I hope I can get some info on. I am running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i586)VERSION = 11 PATCHLEVEL = 1 along with fvwm2-2.5.26-1.25. I have an application page with an icon that opens a firefox 3.5 window.

Sometimes when I hit the icon, the firefox page opens with no problems. Sometimes when I hit the icon, the application screen flashes a couple of times, the firefox screen comes to the front and then the application screen comes back to the front.

I have loaded Module FvwmDebug and in the .out file I have this for the last entry in the log when everything works :

M_WINDOW_NAME
win_id 0x0c00032
frame_id 0x04001db
ptr 135536792
name “Cover-to-Cover - Mozilla Firefox”

When the firefox screen goes to the background and everything does not work, I see this in the .out file :
M_WINDOW_NAME
win_id 0x0c00032
frame_id 0x0400228
ptr 135536792
name “Cover-to-Cover - Mozilla Firefox”
M_RAISE_WINDOW
win_id 0x0a0003c
frame_id 0x04001af
ptr 135535920
M_RAISE_WINDOW
win_id 0x0a0003c
frame_id 0x04001af
ptr 135535920

The win_id 0x0a0003c is the application window & the 0x0c00032 win-id is firefox. Both attempts here are for the same page, the same icon. Not sure why I am getting the RAISE_WINDOW for the app screen here.

Any thoughts where I can start to look? Again. its not every time. Wasn’t sure what config files would help here… the .fvwm2rc file ??

Thanks for your help

Steve

Use FVWM 2.6.4, I’ve just released it. Versions prior to 2.6.0 (which is true of you) is not supported.

Check this with running:

fvwm -f /dev/null

If it still fails in the way you describe, it’s a problem with your config, in which case you should post it.

Your use of FvwmDebug here is misguided.

– Thomas Adam