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X server crash from icewm
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- Subject: X server crash from icewm
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at technion dot ac dot il>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 22:01:24 +0300 (IDT)
Hi
I have currently downloaded and installed icewm. I didn't bother much with
tweaking (just configure; make; make install).
* make install gave an error when trying to install the docs. Something
with pushd and popd. I figure that there is some script that assumes that
/bin/sh is bash, (I have installed ash. Maybe it wasn't that smart). but I
haven't checked this.
* The cpu meter and network meter don't work. But those are probably
contain platform-dependent code.
But:
* switching themes or restarting causes the X server to crash. The error
mssage I see (that I believe comes from XWin):
Fatal server error:
negative sized edge?
Configuration:
win98se
cygwin 1.3.2-1
Latest stable XFree/cygwin
XWin.exe test40
Another note:
I noticed that all the sample startx scripts have an explicit 'screen'
parameter for XWin. Is it really needed? Isn't it better to default to no
-screen parameter' which should give an XFree window that occupies the
whole available screen space (right? at least this is how it works for me)
(This is not related: I have tried using an explicit -screen parameter in
.xserverrc , and still I get the same crashes)
Any ideas? (besides the obvious "don't restart")
What should I check?
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir