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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!dlacroix From: dlacroix@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (David La Croix) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: FVWM weirdness Date: 18 Oct 1995 04:14:40 GMT Organization: ACM Student Machine Lines: 29 Message-ID: <461uvg$aam@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu NNTP-Posting-User: dlacroix X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm experiencing total wierdness when trying to run fvwm as any user other than root. the symptoms are: - fvwm sucks all available CPU cycles... cpu idle stays at 0%, with fvwm taking up the slack even when NOTHING is being done. - goodstuff isn't working, it just draws a rectangle, with the FIRST pixmap and doesnt' get as far as drawing the dividing lines between the buttons. This only seems to occur on my system, (486-DX33, 20Mb RAM, AHA1542CF, FAST-SCSI-2 drives, PAS16, 2 NE2000 clones, STB 4-COM) I'm currently running 1005 SNAP, however, the same symptoms existed under 2.0.5-R. The same thing happens when I run a locally compiled copy of fvwm and the binary that's in the packages distribution. Symptoms exist when fvwm is run from startx, xdm, and from the shell, also, symptoms are present when fvwm is run on X locally and remotely (on an X-Terminal) fvwm seems to work perfectly fine when run by root. -- dlacroix@acm.vt.edu dlacroix@vt.edu