I would appreciate it if you could look, because I really enjoy OB's simple interface.

I thought it was rather interesting that after going "Enviroment | Debbugger Options" the problem went away with all of the others.

Kind regards
Andrew Higgs

Hi All,

I use OpenBox WM and have the following problems (which don't seem to be there with XFCE).

1. The WM shuts down if I follow one of the following menu options: a. Help | About
b. Project | Project Options
c. Enviroment | Enviroment Options
d. Enviroment | Editor Options

This happens as many times as I would care to attempt until I choose "Enviroment | Debugger Options". From then on the problem appears to solve itself.

I am using the 2003-10-16 lazarus.zip snapshot. I downloaded the 2003-10-22 snapshot but the problem is still there. Also noticed (which is what made me switch back) that the combos drop down is black.

Any suggestions.

Kind regards
Andrew Higgs

I just tried this out. OpenBox 2 does not seem to have this problem, OpenBox 3 does. I have in the past seen this under certain versions of Metacity. I am guessing this is thus something to do with NETWM compatible WM.

And it is not just Lazarus. This is also true of some GNUstep applications(happened in Gorm once, and CodeEditor as well), and a few other gtk1.2 applications(happened for me using audacity as well as ardour, both gtk1.2). I am not positive which functions called cause it, however I am pretty sure the problem is at least in part a bug in the current OB3 window manager.

if I get more time today to look further I will try and find out which functions/messages cause it, and you can then submit a bug report on OpenBox, and if there is an actual bug in the GTK backend we can fix it. However seeing as this does not seem to happen with the GTK2 backend, which shares a good deal of the same code, it seems unlikely....

Andrew

This problem seems to be largely resolved with yesterdays (11 November
2003) snapshot.

Thanks guys