Hello,
I am puzzled with an issue with Windowmaker and GWorkspace:
For some unknown reason, a SIGTERM make wmaker process to exit and so
to kill the X session.
I tried all of these build:
wmaker 0.96.0 + GWorkspace 1.1.0
wmaker 0.95.9 + GWorkspace 1.1.0
The above with and without the configure option "--with-inotify" when
building GWorkspace, because, I noted that, with inotify enabled,
there was in the logs something about inotify before wmaker exited.
But now, after removing inotify, it is something about "fswatcher". So
my guess is that GWorkspace sends this SIGTERM for some reason about
filesystem watching.
This happens in two very different circumstancies:
1) I noted that this happens more quickly when some removable disk is
mounted (cmd + E) on the desktop.
2) I noted also that this also happens, but for a more long delay,
without any mounted removable device. In this second case, it seems
more an idle issue, so I tried to prevent it with some xset settings,
but without success. Even I try to run InnerSpace to prevent idle
time, the SIGTERM happens... It is like the fswatcher process needs to
release some memory, and I am not able to find how to prevent it.
I tried also different way within my .xinitrc:
The latest was not more successful than the previous tries:
patrick@pi400gnustep:~ $ cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/bash
### Start Window Manager and xserver
wmaker --no-clip &
### This is to prevent DMPS and blanking issues on RPI machine
/usr/bin/xset -dpms
/usr/bin/xset s off
/usr/bin/xset s noblank
/usr/bin/xset s noexpose
/usr/bin/xset s 0 0
. /usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
if [ `gdomap -L GDNCServer | grep -c Unable` == 1 ];then
gdnc
gpbs
fi
make_services
### Start the Workspace
exec openapp GWorkspace.app
Are you experiencing such autoclosing of your wmaker/GWorkspace
desktop ?
--
Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux (Debian 12 aarch64: RPI OS Lite)
Xorg (1:1.7.1-1.2) - libcairo2 (1.16.0-7+rpt1 arm64)
Window Maker (0.96.0 or 0.95.9) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) -
Theme: Classic - MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0)
