[lazarus] Problem with OpenBox

[Andrew Johnson]

I just tried this out. OpenBox 2 does not seem to have this problem,
OpenBox 3 does. I have in the past seen this under certain versions of
Metacity. I am guessing this is thus something to do with NETWM
compatible WM.

And it is not just Lazarus. This is also true of some GNUstep
applications(happened in Gorm once, and CodeEditor as well), and a few
other gtk1.2 applications(happened for me using audacity as well as
ardour, both gtk1.2). I am not positive which functions called cause it,
however I am pretty sure the problem is at least in part a bug in the
current OB3 window manager.

if I get more time today to look further I will try and find out which
functions/messages cause it, and you can then submit a bug report on
OpenBox, and if there is an actual bug in the GTK backend we can fix it.
However seeing as this does not seem to happen with the GTK2 backend,
which shares a good deal of the same code, it seems unlikely....

Andrew

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 01:42, Andrew Higgs wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I use OpenBox WM and have the following problems (which don't seem to be 
> there with XFCE).
> 
> 1. The WM shuts down if I follow one of the following menu options:
> a. Help | About
> b. Project | Project Options
> c. Enviroment | Enviroment Options
> d. Enviroment | Editor Options
> 
> This happens as many times as I would care to attempt until I choose 
> "Enviroment | Debugger Options". From then on the problem appears to 
> solve itself.
> 
> I am using the 2003-10-16 lazarus.zip snapshot. I downloaded the 
> 2003-10-22 snapshot but the problem is still there. Also noticed (which 
> is what made me switch back) that the combos drop down is black.
> 
> Any suggestions.
> 
> Kind regards
> Andrew Higgs
> 
> 
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