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xfwm4 can't be '--replace'd by another window manager
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Priority:
Medium
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfwm4
Component:
General

Comments

Description Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2006-10-02 10:08:42 CEST 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060928 (Debian-1.8.0.7-1) Epiphany/2.14
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It seems that xfwm4 can't be replaced when another window manager is called with --replace switch.



Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
corsac@hidalgo: openbox --replace                                           [~]

(openbox:3800): Openbox-WARNING **: A window manager is already running on screen 0

Expected Results:  
I guess xfwm4 should have received some signal and commited suicide ?

The original bug report agains debian package can be found there:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390462
Comment 1 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-12-12 20:09:02 CET 
Fixed with rev. 24087.
Comment 2 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2006-12-13 22:06:00 CET 
Actually rev. 24097.
Comment 3 Yves-Alexis Perez editbugs 2007-12-21 15:04:26 CET 
It seems that this bug isn't fixed, even in 4.4.2:

corsac@hidalgo: openbox --replace
Openbox-Message: The WM on screen 0 is not exiting
Comment 4 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2007-12-23 15:44:51 CET 
"metacity --replace" works for me
Comment 5 Olivier Fourdan editbugs 2008-01-21 22:40:40 CET 
Fixed with rev 26585 in trunk and xfce_4_4 branch.

Bug #2374

Reported by:
Yves-Alexis Perez
Reported on: 2006-10-02
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

People

Assignee:
Olivier Fourdan
CC List:
0 users

Version

Version:
4.4.x
Target Milestone:
Xfce 4.4

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