Re: FVWM: FvwmTabs doesn't open any tabs window

From: Micha Feigin <michf_at_post.tau.ac.il>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:44:23 +0300

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:22:23AM +1000, Scott Smedley wrote:
> Hi Micha,
>
> : With the converted rpm for Tk::PNG version 2.003 it gives a message
> : that it can't find Tk::PNG with a self compiled version (2.005) it just
> : crashes, no messages.
>
> I'm not sure I understand this, but to find out if its the PNG module
> causing problems you can simply remove "Tk::PNG" from the use line in
> the FvwmTabs source code. FvwmTabs will spit out lots of errors every
> time it tries to load a .png image, but it should still function.
>
> : On startup the following output is given, on crash no output:
>
> That all looks pretty sane, except the last line is probably truncated.
>
> What does FvwmTabs output on stdout/stderr?
>

This version of Tk has buggy drag-&-drop - workaround enabled.
[FvwmTabs Debug]: sent [SET_MASK 541065216]
[FvwmTabs Debug]: sent [SET_SYNC_MASK 0]
FvwmTabs: Swallow overlapping (D&D), & mini icon features require FVWM >= 2.5.11 - these features disabled.
FvwmTabs: Couldn't create D&D icon from happyMini.xpm
FvwmTabs (v3.1) started with: Perl 5.8.4, X11::Protocol 0.52, Tk 800.025.
image "" doesn't exist at /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/Widget.pm line 196.
 at /usr/lib/fvwm/2.5.10/FvwmTabs line 464
        (in cleanup) Can't call method "name" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/fvwm/2.5.10/FvwmTabs line 850 during global destruction.

> In my ~/.xsession file I do a:
>
> exec fvwm >& $HOME/.fvwm/.errorLog
>
> & then any FvwmTabs errors go to ~/.fvwm/.errorLog.
> Default would be ~/.xsession-errors? (or is that only stderr? not sure.)
>
> Anyway, I'm interested in a line like:
>
> FvwmTabs (v3.1) started with: Perl 5.8.0, X11::Protocol 0.53, Tk 804.025.
>
> & anything else FvwmTabs might say.
>
> Also, what version of FVWM are you using?

fvwm 2.5.10 compiled on May 7 2004 at 07:30:29
with support for: ReadLine, RPlay, Stroke, XPM, PNG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi text, Xinerama, XRender, XFT, NLS

>
> If you're really keen to help out, try & catch me on #fvwm
> (IRC: freenode.net - my nick is "scottie7") & we can experiment with a
> few things.
>

Will try, will need to find some time to see how to setup irc though.

> SCoTT. :)
> --
> Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
> To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
> message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
> To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
> at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
>
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
Received on Fri Jun 11 2004 - 09:45:56 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Mon Aug 29 2016 - 19:37:56 BST