From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 13 21:58:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08338 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:58:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sparcy.delanet.com (sparcy.delanet.com [208.9.136.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA08333 for ; Tue, 13 Oct 1998 21:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stevec@delanet.com) Received: (qmail 8537 invoked from network); 14 Oct 1998 04:54:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 208.9.136.17) (208.9.136.17) by sparcy.delanet.com with SMTP; 14 Oct 1998 04:54:13 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 00:51:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen C. Comoletti" To: (Mr.Blue) Subject: Re: Odd window manager behavior Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Oct-98 Mr.Blue wrote: > stevec@delanet.com,Internet writes: >>I have a P-II/266, 64 megs ram, 5.7gig eide drive, zip, toshiba cdrom, usr >>56k v90, etc etc. the usuals. I am running FreeBSD 2.2.6 on it. I have >>previously used qvwm, however grew tired of it. So I tried ICEWM. Overall >>I >>like it the best of the different managers provided with the distribution >>CD's. >> >>Ok..now, my problem is this.. Under ICEWM, ICQ is unable to create new >>windows for sending/receiving events. They appear for a brief instant, and >>disappear as fast as you can blink. It logs events as received even tho I >>never get to view them. This only happens in ICEWM btw.. olvwm, fvwm, qvwm >>all worked fine. > > I don't have a solution to your problem (sorry) but i would like to ask > you a question. I'm BSD on almost the same system as you are.... and i > haven't been able to get ICQ working at all. it just flashes some screen > for about 1/30th of a second and goes away.... did you encounter this > problem... if so how did you fix it? > > -Chris I never encountered that one..I grabbed ICQ off the Mirabilis web site. It went in without even the slightest problem. I do wish they would upgrade it..the win95 version is 20x more advanced. But it does work.. Not till I put in ICEWM did I have any trouble with it. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Stephen C. Comoletti Date: 14-Oct-98 Time: 00:49:22 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message