"Find" no longer works

[Geoffrey]

Andrew Ruscica wrote:
> 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.

I have the same problem with Enlightenment window manager.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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