Re: [STUMP] Problem with Mathematica 6

[Shawn]

Kresimir Kumericki <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I am a long-term user of ratpoison and now I tried stumpwm. It looks
> great, but I experience problems when starting Wolfram Research's
> Mathematica 6.0  (There is no problem with version 5.2!)
>
> What happens is that some error occurs (see log below), frame for 
> Mathematica window is not created (although application window is there
> and can be focused by mouse), and then one of the two following
> situations occurs:
>
> (1) number ordering of other frames is 
> rearranged (e.g 0*Terminal  1*Firefox  becomes  0*Firefox 1*Terminal),
> and if I had some groups, frames for all groups get squashed into default
> group and second group is destroyed.

This is because stumpwm restarted due to the error.

> (2) stumpwm is not responding (although process 'stumpwm' is still
> running). I have to kill it and restart.

This is unfortunate. stumpwm should cleanly restart in the event of an
unhandled error. If this happens again try running strace on it to see
what it's doing. Also see if it's using 100% of the cpu.

> There is an error log corresponding to situation (1) attached below. 
> This is with today's git version, but the same situation is with
> 0.9.4.1, while stumpwm 0.9.2 simply crashes.
>
> I use SBCL 0.9.16 under Debian stable.

Have you tried this with clisp?

> Should I file a bug report?
>
> 10: (XLIB:GET-WM-CLASS #<XLIB:WINDOW :0 E00324>)
> 11: (STUMPWM::XWIN-CLASS #<XLIB:WINDOW :0 E00324>)

It appears as though this could be a bug in portable clx. Can boot
mathematica in another wm (ratpoison?) and run:

xprop -id <mathematica window id> WM_CLASS

you can use:

windows %t %i

in ratpoison to get the window id for each window.

When I run the xprop command on my emacs I get:

address@hidden:~/src/stumpwm.git/contrib$ xprop -id 8388796 WM_CLASS
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "emacs", "Emacs"

But I'm hoping something unusual will be displayed for the mathematica
window. With that value hopefully we can come up with minimal
steps to reproduce and discover the source of the error.

-Shawn