Thanks for the suggestions! > > ... for a while, it started working. Then it stopped again in the middle > > of a session for no obvious reason, and it hasn't worked since.
... and it has now started working again, so I can't actually test anything. Oh well... > Could that be related to modifier keys? These nested X window systems > often have the problems that they notice that a modifier key has been > pressen (shift, ctrl, num-lock etc.) but not that it's been released. > When the problem shows up, focus the virtualbox window and hit all > modifier keys once and see if that helps. Interesting idea. Next time it breaks I'll see what I can find. > Is FvwmIconMan running separately or inside FvwmButtons? Running separately, started from the InitFunction. > > All the other bits of fvwm seem to be still working: title-bar buttons (so I > > can iconify things, just not get them back conveniently), root-window menus, > > FvwmPager. Other X clients seem fine too. > > Hmm. Quite so. I'm beginning to suspect some kind of subtle timing issue. Thanks again. I may yet be back... -- George D M Ross MSc PhD CEng MBCS CITP, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9AB Mail: g...@inf.ed.ac.uk Voice: 0131 650 5147 Fax: 0131 650 6899 PGP: 1024D/AD758CC5 B91E D430 1E0D 5883 EF6A 426C B676 5C2B AD75 8CC5 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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