(mgp-users 00378) Re: mgp-1.07a is crashing X

["Dean S. Messing" <deanm@sharplabs.com>]

Ok, I've verified that my problems with %xsystem causing X to crash
is a windowmanager problem and not a server problem. In fact, I started
Fvwm2 on another virtual terminal (under linux) and both the sample.mgp
slide with the %system command (xeyes) and the one with the %xsystem command
(xclock) ran flawlessly.  So now what can I do?  I doubt anyone
on the KDE team will be willing to look into the source of magicpoint
and find out what the %xsystem command does so that they can trace the
bug.  And I, myself, am an X ignoramus so I wouldn't know what
technical abra-kedabra to say in the bug report to help them.

Any suggestions?  Can anyone translate what the %xsystem command really
does into something I could include in a KDE bug report.  Or maybe
there's a KDE expert here on this list that could actually look into
the problem :-)  Is the author familiar with KDE?

Dean


 :: > Thanks,  Jim, for the reply.
 :: > So it's a window manager issue and not a server issue?
 :: > 
 :: > I'm running KDE 1.1.2. I wonder if the bug is in the WM or in MagicPoint?
 :: > If the former, I will submit a bug report to KDE.  If the latter then
 :: > I suppose this discussion on the list constitutes a bug report here.
 :: > What is the verdict?
 :: > 
 :: > Dean
 :: 
 :: To add another data point, I'm using 2.2.16-3 kernel (on top of an
 :: initial RedHat 6.0 installation -- 2.2.5-15), and using Gnome, with
 :: an X server compiled to run on IBM Thinkpads -- that I found on a
 :: Linux-Thinkpad webpage.
 :: 
 :: For me, %xsystem works fine.  However %system commands that generate
 :: X-windows ocassionally flash the outline of the window, and then
 :: dissappear, but mostly I don't even get to see the flash of the
 :: window -- I just get nothing.  So I use %xsystem for displaying
 :: X programs.  Probably also WM related.