Re: [kde-linux] Child windows not appearing - KDE 3.5.7

On Monday 12 November 2007, David Boston wrote:
Kevin Krammer wrote:

On Wednesday 07 November 2007, David Boston wrote:
>> Hello people,
>> I have a bit of an odd one on KDE 3.5.7-1.fc6 built for Fedora
>> core 6 on x86.
>> An application that opens child windows that contain some motif
>> widgets to display a text file won't work on the above KDE - there's
>> just a flash on the screen the shape of the window and it vanishes as
>> if it was a remote window without permission to be there. They do work
>> on
>
>Can you check if they are probably just moved to the background, i.e.
>they are created but the current window is kept as the "top most" one.

Unfortunately this is not the case. There's just a flash the shape of
the window even on a bare spot of the desktop and then it is gone.

Ah, too bad.

>The application in question might not set the proper window manager
>hints to detect this association.

That is fairly likely since the application is some commercial software
probably older than linux and ported from IRIX, SunOS etc. It's
geophysical software called ProMAX which has been updated for linux
2.6.* but they may have missed a few things.

Hmm, well, since you report has been working with an older KDE version, it
could be a regression in KWin.

Do you have the option of testing with a different distribution? E.g. running
a live CD like Knoppix and check if it works when you use that as the remote
display?

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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