"Find" no longer works

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:31:57PM -0800, fml at petrel.rprc.washington.edu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:52:40PM -0500, 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!

> > 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.
> 
> Andrew, your thought was right on.  I tried it with a Gnome desktop and "find"
> worked perfectly.  Too bad, I really like fvwm.
> 
> I didn't see the earlier discussion, even with searching the mailing list
> archives.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion!  I'm surprised, it worked not that long ago.
> Does anyone know if there are other apps that have this problem?  Then
> we could perhaps get the necessary change in fvwm?

The specific problem is in the way the find dialog is built. THis was
changed somewhere in the 2.2.x series. It uses a technique that
highlights bugs in some of these window managers. 

A
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