Re: FVWM: fvwm and casting from chrome

Peter G <[email protected]> writes:

> On 5/27/20 5:06 PM, Dan Espen wrote:
>> peter g <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Everyone:
>>>
>>> i have a frustrating issue with fvwm and casting from google's chrome,
>>> that maybe somebody has a workaround for.
>>>
>>> Normally, under any other WM i've tried (and also on windows), in the
>>> chrome browser, choosing "Cast", will pop up a small window that asks
>>> the user what device to cast to. Unfortunately in fvwm that little
>>> window with those options does not show up.
>>>
>>> I've tried both with my config, but also with a very fvwm config such as:
>>> key c  A CM FvwmConsole
>>> key r  A CM Restart
>>> Key u  A CM Exec xterm
>>>
>>> If anyone has a work around, that would be much appreciated, as
>>> casting, for better or worse, is very useful to me.
>> I've got chromium, not google-chrome.
>>
>> I click on the 3 dots on the second line,
>> a menu pops up, I select "cast".
>>
>> A dialog box pops up labeled "cast tab".
>> It searches for devices and finds none.
>>
>> That dialog box is internal to the browser, it's not a window manager window.
>
> You're probably correct - I've tried Thomas' trick to see transient
> windows' info and don't see any messages from fvwm.
>
> I had actually initially thought this was a chrome issue, but the
> little 'cast' window does show up when I log into a different window
> manager.

I'm going to first take a wild guess, perhaps while running Fvwm
you don't have enough of a "desktop" environment running to make
Chrome happy.  In my .xinitrc I start some of that stuff like this:

. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
/usr/libexec/notification-daemon &

I don't know if that will help.


To dig deeper, you might attach "strace" to Chrome then try to
open the Cast window.  Look though the output for errors that
might be confusing Chrome.


-- 
Dan Espen