Brice > You can't run gdb from a terminal in X when debugging something related > to X.
Silly me, of course > One possible cause for the problem could be that Xserver 1.3 is known to > not report Xinerama capabilities correctly, which can confuse clients. > If this wrong Xserver behavior causes fluxbox to crash, that would > explain the problem. To test it quickly, open src/Screen.cc in the > fluxbox source, go to BScreen::initXinerama() and change > if (!XineramaIsActive(display)) { > into > if (1) making that change, installing the modified fluxbox and xorg 1.3 and we are there, working like a charm! nexus:~> head /var/log/Xorg.0.log X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 nexus:~> grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER So I guess that closes this one -- thanks very much for all of your help. Cheers Jim -- J.J. Green, Dept. Applied Mathematics, Hicks Bld., University of Sheffield, UK. +44 (0114) 222 3742 http://pdfb.wiredworkplace.net/pub/jjg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]