"Find" no longer works

[Andrew Ruscica]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:58:58PM -0800, fml at petrel.rprc.washington.edu wrote:
> For some time now, "Find" no longer works.  If I click on Edit/Find,
> several small windows open and vanish before anything in them can be
> read.  This used to work!
> 
> I'm running gnucash-2.2.3 (Debian/lenny-testing).  I've similarly
> whined on debian-users without getting any response.  Everything
> else that I've tried works.
> 
> If anyone has any clue regarding how to make this work once more -
> or even how to get more revealing diagnostic clues, I'd appreciate
> it.  (I tried running it with strace but didn't see anything helpful
> in the deluge.)  I haven't (yet) tried building gnucash directly.
> 
> Thanks for any constructive ideas you might have!
> 
> 	-f

Does your window manager happen to be fvwm? For me, gnucash does similar
things under fvwm but is fine under kde. I'm running 2.2.2 on OpenSuse/i386.

If that is the case, there was some discussion a couple months ago on this
list, but as far as I know it's not yet resolved.