Kent Berry wrote:
> > Has any one had this problem? I start fvwm2.41, FvwmButtons
> > appears load but then quickly exits - no errors reported. If I
Alan:
> Myabe I shoudlnt' have been so quick as to assume I goofed up something
> in Jarl's releases.
Thanks alot :-) You're probably not too far off mark, I prefer just to code
the thing; not test it.
> That's what happened to me in the 3/8 release. Except I would never see
> an FvwmButtons window. It would just start all of the chile (to be
> swallowed) apps and then stop. I'm not 100% that the process died.
> I'll have to check it again, but that's essentially what happened. It
> never came up with the new format.
There were lots of quirks in the loading of icons, that should be history
now. I've thrown it all out and link with the Picture code in fvwmlib.
Actually that's the same that fvwm menus use. Yes there is a bug in it
(see below)
> processes better. I've got a problem where xmialbox will spawn a
> defunct process if I currently have my xmailapp open. I was hoping that
> maybe the new FvwmButtons would make this behave better or at least I
Send me a description (I didn't quite understand this one), and I will look
at it.
> Anyway. . . since I haven't got a reply yet why does:
> IconPath /users/arwild01/.icons/
> PixmapPath /users/arwild01/.icons/
>
> AddToMenu Xterms "XTerms" Title
> + "Local Xterm%/users/arwild01/.icons/starbase.xbm%" Exec xterm -name starbase -ls &
>
> That work, but this doesn't? (Assuming the same IconPath/PixmapPath
> specification) BTW, I'll admit that my file was originally based on
> someone else's working .fvwm2rc. I can only me blamed for 50% of the
> errors in here. That, and the stupidy not to confirm everything.
>
> AddToMenu Xterms "XTerms" Title
> + "Local Xterm%starbase.xbm%" Exec xterm -name starbase -ls &
As mentioned above, there's a stupid bug in Picture.c: first it searches
the pixmap path for the icon, when it doesn't find it there it gives up.
See? Not just me who make the bugs. :-) This one I even fixed, there is a
patch for it on my page.
FvwmButtons will be settling down soon, I have almost all the features I
wanted to do, and there really aren't that many bugs. I use it all the time
without problems, and several other people run it fine.
I might have introduced incompatibilities with some systems though, so
please report if you get problems with compiling etc.
No, today's version is not out yet. Seems it will be tomorrows version
instead :-) New features: Popup menus that work, more streamlined syntax,
bitmap icons works again, option to use WM_DELETE_WINDOW or KillClient for
sending children to bed, handles resizing to 0, and a surprise I'm working
on. You'll just have to wait.
Vyrdsamt,
-Jarl
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Received on Sat Mar 09 1996 - 14:28:10 GMT