"Richard E. Hawkins" wrote:
>
> I started seeing this today when I pulled out my thinkpad (755c, 486/
> 50, 20mb) running debian slink. Initially, the lyx was that which
> shipped as a .deb with slink, then I compiled a new one from cvs and
> installed it (learing that a floppy going bad is a *very* bad thing fro
> FreeBSD; the hardware error eventually brings the system down), and
> just had it happen again.
>
> THe screensize is 640x480. I've been making lyx larger than the screen
> so to use on the middle verticle screen, letting the top & bottom of
> the window flow off.
I don't quite grasp the reasoning here. I assume you have fvwm2 set up
3xN.
What is your virtual screen size. I have a machine with a similar setup.
I have not had the kind of problem you describe for some time, and I
think it went away with an fvwm2 upgrade.
> When using alt-uparrow to move within the virtual screen so see my
> xterms, I have had several crashes. ALmost every time with .12final,
> only once (I can't make it happen again) with todays.
> I can't copy an unstripped over to it; I don't have room on the disk
> for that, gdb, etc. (and I'm not sure this little thing is up to lyx &
> gdb at the same time :)
>
> I've never seen this particular behavior on my desktop machine.
Check the versions on fvwm2 and the ChangeLogs.
> I'm using fvwm2, if that makes a difference.
>
> Is there any debug setting I can use on the stripped binary that would
> provide more information?
>
> rick
>
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