Re: [STUMP] Skype crashes stumpwm

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:58:41 +0200 "Rohan Nicholls" <address@hidden> wrote: 

RN> The linux version is notoriously resource hungry, and flaky.  I have
RN> not been at all impressed with it, and I also used it exclusively as a
RN> messenger (again because we had to for work).  Maybe the voip stuff
RN> worked really well, but the linux client was definately a second class
RN> citizen.  Much of the interaction with X was done by brute-force
RN> methods, making obvious calls to low-level X functions which
RN> completely bypassed anything to do with window managers.

When I use buggy or obstinate X software, I usually put it inside Xnest.
It works pretty well and I haven't had any system crashes.  Maybe that
will help?

Ted