Window grabbed by someone else... [solved]

Configuration General Questions
1

Hi

I have fvwm pager and fvwmbuttons (date & time)

#FvwmPager

Style "FvwmPager" NoTitle, !Handles, Borderwidth 0, Sticky, WindowListSkip, \
  CirculateSkip, FixedPosition, FixedSize, !Iconifiable

DestroyModuleConfig FvwmPager: *
*FvwmPager: Geometry 250x50+1000+30
*FvwmPager: MiniIcons
*FvwmPager: Colorset * 15 
*FvwmPager: HilightColorset * 63 
*FvwmPager: WindowColorsets 62 61
*FvwmPager: BalloonColorset * 15
*FvwmPager: Font none
*FvwmPager: IconGeometry 16x16
*FvwmPager: SmallFont none
*FvwmPager: Balloons All
*FvwmPager: BalloonFont "Shadow=0 se:xft:DejaVu Sans:size=10:antialias=True"
*FvwmPager: BalloonYOffset +4
*FvwmPager: BalloonBorderWidth 1
*FvwmPager: UseSkipList
*FvwmPager: MoveThreshold 0
*FvwmPager: SolidSeparators
*FvwmPager: WindowBorderWidth 1
*FvwmPager: BorderWidth 0

#FvwmButtons

Style "FvwmButtons" NoTitle, !Handles, Borderwidth 0, Sticky, WindowListSkip, \
  CirculateSkip, FixedPosition, FixedSize, !Iconifiable

DestroyModuleConfig FvwmButtons: *
*FvwmButtons: Geometry 250x24+1000+6
*FvwmButtons: Rows 1
*FvwmButtons: Columns 4
*FvwmButtons: Colorset 16 
*FvwmButtons: Frame 0
#*FvwmButtons: (Swallow (Kill, UseOld) "stalonetray" `Exec stalonetray`)
*FvwmButtons: (3x1, Swallow "DateScript" "FvwmScript scripts/DateScript")
*FvwmButtons: (1x1, Swallow "TimeScript" "FvwmScript scripts/TimeScript")

When fvwm starts, TimeScript doesn’t get swallowed.
It appears as a window in the center of the screen.
Fvwm says:
Window xxx (“TimeScript”) was grabbed by someone else window xxx

How to fix this?

2

Post your full .fvwm2rc – although to be honest amending:

*FvwmButtons: (1x1, Swallow "TimeScript" "FvwmScript scripts/TimeScript")

To read:

*FvwmButtons: (1x1, Swallow (UseOld) "TimeScript" "FvwmScript scripts/TimeScript")

But that might not be the full answer until I see the rest of your config, but it’s worth a try.

– Thomas Adam

3

The same with UseOld

my config:
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4

Solved by
loading module FvwmButtons before FvwmPager in StartFunction,
and swallowing timescript before datescript.

sebaro.madpage.com/fvwm/