Start X via xinit, my .xinitrc -- imwheel -f -k -p -b "89" exec /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- /usr/bin/xsm -- with this .xsmstartup -- twm xclock -digital xterm -rv -geometry 130x40+0+0 xterm -rv -geometry 130x33+0+555 -- If you try to show 'client list' in xsm menu, application will crash Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start X via xinit with only xsm (via .xinitrc) 2.Run in xsm a 'xterm -rv' terminal and twm (via .xsmstartup) 3.Try to show 'client list' on xsm menu 4.xsm will crash (and X session will end) Actual Results: xsm crashing and X session ended Expected Results: xsm client list is showed There is missing fonts in twm package. Maybe it's twm specific because missing fonts? (there is a bug open with that) xsm session over gnome-session is working well (with metacity) I post here that output: $ xsm Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". twm: another window manager is already running. on screen 0? twm: unable to find any unmanaged video screens. Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:15:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m32" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m32" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--load-average=4 -j" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distcc distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo " LANG="en_US.ISO-8859-1" LC_ALL="en_US.ISO-8859-1" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en es es_ES" MAKEOPTS="-j11" PKGDIR="/usr/local/portage/binpackages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="lzma" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acpi alsa apic berkdb cli cracklib cups custom-cflags custom-optimization dbus doc gdbm gnome gpm gtk hal iconv isdnlog mmx mmxext modules mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia opengl openmp pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads unicode x86 xorg xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en es es_ES" SANE_BACKENDS="epson" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Sorry, there's little I can do to help you here, xsm is such an antiquated utility, only upstream know its internals. Please file a bug in FreeDesktop's bugzilla [1] and paste the URL here so I can track the issue. Thanks [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
(In reply to comment #1) > Sorry, there's little I can do to help you here, xsm is such an antiquated > utility, only upstream know its internals. Please file a bug in FreeDesktop's > bugzilla [1] and paste the URL here so I can track the issue. > > Thanks > > [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24872 Thanks you
Reopening
Let's track the bug upstream directly then. Closing with the proper resolution. Thanks
