Re: 2 problems with X

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:33:07 -0300, Ariel Manzur
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi..
>
>I'm new to frost (and freenet). I'm using the latest stable build,
>from may 28th, on debian, with java version 1.5.0, and I have 2
>problems. The first is that I can't post messages (wich is why I'm
>posting this here and not the newbies forum ;). When I press the
>'compose' button nothing happens, and I get a big traceback on the
>console (wich I'm pasting at the end of this mail). I assume the
>relevant parts are:
>
>Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
>java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Width (0) and height (0) cannot be
><= 0
>[...]
>        at frost.gui.MessageFrame.composeMessage(MessageFrame.java:582)
>        at frost.gui.MessageFrame.composeNewMessage(MessageFrame.java:534)
>        at frost.MainFrame.tofNewMessageButton_actionPerformed(MainFrame.java:2914)
>[...]
>
>Is this a known bug? I sounds like it's trying to determine the size
>of some window, but it's getting 0,0, but I'm afraid I'm not familiar
>enough (or at all) with java to check it out myself. Is there a more
>recent build I could try?

	There is a newer build of Frost released on the 22th of
November. It has two versions now: one compiled for Java 1.4 and the
other one for Java 1.5. Try the latter and tell me if that helps.

	If not, the only thing I can think of doing is looking for
information about this error. Maybe it is a known incompatilibity of
Java with X (just speculating here) and there may be a solution for
it. The problem is that I only have access to Windows computers, so I
wouldn't be able to test if that eventual solution works or not.

>The second problem is minor.. When I use alt+tab to switch to
>different windows, I can't see to frost icon on the task list that
>shows up when you press alt+tab, I have to go down to the task bar to
>select it (wich is annoying because I always keep my task bar hidden).
>I'm using XFree86 4.2.1 with icewm as the window manager.. I realize
>it's not a common window manager, maybe it has something to do with
>the previous problem as well.

	I have absolutely no idea about this one. As I said above, I
only have access to Windows computers so I don't have the slightest
idea about how to solve it. Nevertheless, I will try to look for
information.

>I'd apreciate any help. thanks..

	I am sorry for not having been of much help.

	Kind regards.

-- 
Jose M. Arnesto
j[insert my surname here]@computer.org



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