Re: FVWM: fvwm and casting from chrome

Brian <[email protected]> writes:

> On Slackware 64 14.2 with multilib I have no problem getting the
> "Cast.." to show.  I start my session with:
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> dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/fvwm
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> Perhaps you simply don't have dbus interacting with fvwm.

Interesting.
I used to use dbus-launch but I found that lacking.

Eventually I settled on:

. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common

Which does a bunch of things, including dbus-launch.

I don't know what the "correct" way to do this is.
It just works for me.

> Cheers
> BrianA_MN
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> On Thu, 28 May 2020 08:32:06 -0400
> Dan Espen <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Peter G <[email protected]> writes:
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>> > 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:
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>> . /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
>> /usr/libexec/notification-daemon &
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>> I don't know if that will help.
>> 
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>> 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.
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Dan Espen