Re: Unnamed window on screen with IceWM

On 01/06/15 03:30 AM, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> On Sun, 31 May 2015, Bernd Eggink wrote:
>
>> On 30.05.2015 20:09, Frederit Mogollon wrote:
>>
>>> My problem:
>>> When the PC on, appear a unnamed windows with small dimensions near to
>>> right upper corner of screen, and your button on taskbar from which
>>> can be minimized.
>>
>> I had this problem as well, but I think it disappeared after updating
>> icewm to version 1.3.8. If Debian doesn't provide the latest version,
>> you could download the sources and compile them yourself.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bernd
>
> Well, this could be a taskbartry - at least this is my experience. As the
> computers get faster, especially with SSD the it happens very often that
> icontry is up sooner than the taskbar and window manager. In that case it
> creates a window, that is then claimed by WM. The original poster of this
> question has not the fast machine thou, but is using a xinitrc to start
> apps. This means the apps are started with X but may came up sooner than
> WM. The sleeps in there indicate a kind of attempt to slow down the start
> of some apps... I would recommend to try to move the apps to icewm startup
> file and let the xinit start only the icewm(-session) (you need to use
> some sleeps anyway).
>
> You may also try "xprop" the weird window.
>


   I use icewm-session and from time to time get the weird window. Next 
time I see it I'll try xprop to see what's going on. I also don't have 
an SSD.




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