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List:       fvwm
Subject:    Re: FVWM: Vmware/fvwm-2.6.7: Lost Vmware window when returning from fullscreen mode
From:       Jürgen_Hartmann <juergen_hartmann_ () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2016-11-22 11:04:46
Message-ID: AM3PR04MB499C0DFF7E28FF2DCA29FC4A8B40 () AM3PR04MB499 ! eurprd04 ! prod ! outlook ! com
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Thank you, Dokinik, for your assessment:

> > How would you judge its behavior concerning stability and side effects:
> > Would it be to risky to use it right away in a production system, aka
> > "testing under wild life conditions"?
>
> The worst that can happen is that different windows aren't
> accessible.  Regarding stability, I'd say the patched code is how
> it should have been from the start, but you never know what
> strange and broken applications are around and how they react to
> changes in the events before you just try it for a while.  This
> certainly needs testing.
>
> However, this patch only affects clients that do things like
> iconifying or withdrawing their windows, i.e. the vast majority of
> programs won't be affected, but you never know what closed source
> programs until they break.

So I will use the fixed version looking out for such a behavior of
applications and report corresponding findings here.

Thank you very much, Dominik, for taking care of that problem, and your
profound analysis and comprehensive help.

Greetings
Juergen

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