Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> wrote:
> > Sometimes Netscape will pop open a dialogue window
> > (cookies, sending things, switching from secure to
> > insecure, asking for a password, etc.) but the geometry is
> > totally whacked out.  My window manager (gwm) deals with
> > this by drawing a frame around a 0x0 window, leaving me
> > with a four-pixel-wide vertical bar the normal height of a
> > window decoration.
> 
> fvwm95 and kwm do the same. :-I
> 
> > When such a dialogue box opens, Netscape will stop doing
> > anything else until it is dealt with by the user;
> > sometimes this is as simple as resizing the tiny window,
> > but sometimes you can't do that (you can end up with a
> > bigger grey window) -- when that happens, if you are
> > lucky, just hitting return on the tiny window will
> > generate a response to the dialogue box, letting you
> > continue.
> > 
> > Deleting the tiny window also sometimes helps.
> 
> Sometimes, yes... and sometimes Netscape just opens more of these
> zero-sized windows (I have closed over 20 of them before killing
> Netscape).

You can prevent some of this with the following X resources:

Netscape*useStderrDialog: False
Netscape*useStdoutDialog: False

Cheers,
Dean.