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newsProblems with JWM window manager
I have been using JWM 2.3.7 in recent builds of Quirky and Easy,
however, have encountered rather a lot of bugs. The most recent report
was choosing the "Move" option from the right-click menu in a window
title-bar crashing JWM -- which brings down all of X.
So, I have been compiling and testing the latest from github, but
this has not been smooth sailing, as I have reported to the Puppy Forum:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=978446#978446
So, with revision 1675, ~/.jwmrc needs new <Mouse> tags, else
is broken. It looks like Joe will fix that, so it defaults to working
without those tags.
I keep thinking that I liked the old revision 976... it was pretty
rock solid. I hunted through the Pup Forum for any reports of bugs with
976...
666philb reported 976 fixed a bug:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=801782#801782
Ah, I recall someone mentioned this one... Hesse James reported 976 cannot properly display additional vertical trays:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=836688#836688
For the JWMDesk app, radky commented about an icon-sizing problem with vertical panels in 976:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=869691#869691
Incidentally, radky is continuing to support older versions of JWM in his JWMDesk.