Re: Window Manager for GNUstep

[Andreas Höschler]

Hello Pete,

> > You have no problem with freezing desktops, Command-1 not working,...?
>
> I have no idea what you mean by 'Command-1',

Command means pressing the Apple-Key on a Mac-Keyboard, the Salmi-Key 
on a Sun-Keyboard and ... well, on a PC you're fucked. :-) Usually you 
would use the Alt-Key as the Command-Key since you have no other one 
left. :-)

Command is the key you press together with another key to fire the 
action of menu items if you have set key equivalents.


>  but I never have any problems
> with freezing desktops or aything. Possibly th problem is with 
> GWorkspace

I don't use GWorkspace!

> or something like that, and not with the Window Manager itself? Or 
> maybe it
> is a Linux issue?

I am not using Linux either. We are running Solaris.

> version of Window Maker is 0.92

We use 0.92 as well. The problem is that no window maker events (click 
on another application window) are handled as long as the event loop of 
the currently activate application is not looping but stuck in a long 
term calculation (10s). Might it be that you have no GNustep 
applications that need 10s to complete an operation behind a button or 
menu item so that you can't reproduce the problem?

Since I have the same problem with enlightenment I would think this is 
an issue in back. I suppose the window manager waits for some kind of 
permission from the application to resign current application and the 
application does not give this permission until the long term operation 
has finished (granting permission requires a running event loop). Is 
this all bullshit or might this be the cause?

Regards,

  Andreas