Re: Unresponsive after 'tmpwm' ?

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Fahri Cihan Demirci
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> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Andrea Remondini wrote:
>> Hello! I'm seeing this problem with Ratpoison 1.4.8 on Linux/x86_64:
>> after a 'tmpwm' command, and after exiting the temporary wm, Ratpoison's
>> input bar and the 'exec' input bar are unresponsive. No keystrokes are
>> accepted. Killing Ratpoison seems to be the only way out.
>>
>> BTW, if the specified temp wm is inexistent, Ratpoison opens two
>> unnamed windows that can't be closed. After that, the input bars are
>> unresponsive.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm this behaviour?
>>
>> Thanks for your comments,
>> AR
>
> Hello Andrea,
>
> For what it's worth, I can't seem to reproduce either behaviour. I tried pekwm and a few tiling window managers in the same session and they all started up normally and delegated the control back to ratpoison upon exit. Inputting a bogus command for tempwm does not seem to cause any problems either.
>
> I've tried both the master and 1.4.8 versions on the same platform; 64 bit GNU/Linux. Could the problem be related to the temporary window manager you are trying to run?

I can reproduce on 1.4.8, installed from the Arch Linux repositories,
on an x86-64 4.2.5 kernel, with xorg-server 1.17.4. For instance,
launching openbox (version 3.6.1) via tmpwm and exiting (right-click
on root, then 'logout') gives the control back to ratpoison, but it
remains unresponsive. Using a bogus executable as tmpwm argument also
causes unresponsiveness and creates the two unnamed windows. The only
way out of both situations seemed to kill X via Ctrl-alt-bksp.

I haven't tested on master yet. I know however that the
unresponsiveness issue when exiting the tmpwm is not new from the
current stable version, as I've encountered it systematically for a
while.

I'll try and investigate the issue later this week, if I can reproduce
it on master.

Regards,
Antoine Busque

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