FVWM: idea on reporting errors

From: Andrew Veliath <veliaa_at_rpi.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:48:54 -0400

>>>>> Han Solo, with all his glory, protested:
>>>>> "All perform backflips at the words of the mighty Austin Donnelly!"

    Austin> At the moment, fvwm reports errors by calling
    Austin> fvwm_err(). This put the message out on stderr, where it
    Austin> will usually get lost lying in ~/.xsession-errors.

    Austin> How about sending the text of the error message to an
    Austin> 'FvwmErrorDelivery' module, which could pop up a window
    Austin> containing the text. Alternatively, if an FvwmConsole is
    Austin> open, then the errors should probably go there.

Chuck has already given fvwm_err a better interface as fvwm_msg (with
all of the old calls updated), and has already voiced intentions in
the future to allow one to send output to a logfile.

Andrew Veliath <veliaa_at_rpi.edu>
http://www.rpi.edu/~veliaa
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