79036 – firefox-bin does not display in fvwm, after displaying correctly in gnome-2.8

Bug 79036 - firefox-bin does not display in fvwm, after displaying correctly in gnome-2.8

Summary: firefox-bin does not display in fvwm, after displaying correctly in gnome-2.8

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team

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Reported:	2005-01-21 19:17 UTC by James Tomlinson
Modified:	2005-12-11 18:26 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description James Tomlinson 2005-01-21 19:17:07 UTC

Having originally setup gnome-2.8 on my system, I had mozilla, firefox, and firefox-bin working (with some glitches for plugins - but displaying). firefox-bin always dumped some warnings in console when run gnome, and these same errors are dumped in the console within fvwm. However the window does not appear... the process is there.. but the window? I have no idea.. forums haven't proved helpful, and my fvwm config is very simple.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. with no previous firefox related processes running
2. execute 'firefox-bin'


Actual Results:  
1. A Running 'firefox-bin' process
2. No firefox window.. not in windowlist, not on another desktop

Expected Results:  
Displayed firefox as it does if I run 'firefox'

Comment 1 wodz 2005-02-15 04:40:16 UTC

I had similar problem with fluxbox. Finally I found that it was problem with application setting background image (feh-1.2.6). Firefox draws its window under the background image - that's why it seems to by hanging. Emerging feh-1.2.9 seems to solve problem.

Comment 2 Grégoire Favre 2005-03-25 08:13:59 UTC

Just tried with fvwm2 and after having set a background with feh, I still can't launch firefox-bin (firefox works perfectly...). Also setting background color with xxsetroot don't change anything.

If I start ratpoisson instead, firefox-bin works perfectly.

Comment 3 Nicolai Guido Klausen 2005-04-12 05:32:22 UTC

The problem exsist in fluxbox to.

by the way, I think that http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85860 is a dup of this bug

Comment 4 Dmitri Pogosian 2005-05-10 18:44:34 UTC

Same here

Comment 5 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-04 07:14:31 UTC

please try fvwm-2.5.14, this might have been a 64bit wm issue that has since 
been fixed.

Comment 6 John Bethencourt 2005-09-19 08:41:26 UTC

That fixes it.

I was having the same problem on my EM64T system using fvwm-2.5.12. Switching to
fvwm-2.5.14 made the problem go away.

Comment 7 Alan Somers 2005-09-25 17:33:58 UTC

I used firefox with fvwm-2.5.12 for a long time, but experienced this bug after
upgrading my profile to 2005.0 .  Upgrading fvwm to fvwm-2.5.14 fixed the issue.
 If only all the other profile related bugs would go away...

Comment 8 Jory A. Pratt 2005-12-11 15:25:26 UTC

This does come back to a wm issue on 64bit platforms. Openbox and wmaker were
both effected as well. These should all be fixed in portage now.

Comment 9 Chad Ziccardi 2005-12-11 18:26:03 UTC

I still get issues using firefox 1.5 under windowmaker on amd64, all rebuilt
earlier this week.