Re: FVWM: Module configuration line limit

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:20:35 +0200

On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:47:27PM -0400, Jim Nicholson wrote:
>
> I wanted to submit a bug report for this, but I'm not sure whether
> it's a code error or just missing documentation.
>
> There seems to be a 127-character limit for line length of
> FvwmButtons configuration entries in .fvwm2rc.

Well, there is a limit, but it's not 127 bytes. I can't remember
exactly, but it's either 256 bytes or 1000 bytes. Which version
of fvwm are you using (the latest official release is 2.2).

> I discovered this while
> trying to add buttons to my wharf-work-alike configuration. I did some
> testing to discover the limit. The line
>
> *MyWharf(Icon wp-icon.xpm, Title "A Very Long title Indeed", Action
> "Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -title "Thisonestillworks5678")
>
> will parse, but
>
> *MyWharf(Icon wp-icon.xpm, Title "A Very Long title Indeed", Action
> "Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -title "Thisoneistoolong456789")
 ^^^ ^^^ ^^^

Is this exactly the line in your config file? You can't use double
quotes inside double quotes. This one is correct:

  *MyWharf(Icon wp-icon.xpm, Title "A Very Long title Indeed", Action
  "Exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -title 'Thisoneistoolong456789'")
                                   ^^^ ^^^^

>
> causes FvwmButtons to fail initialization. There's nothing in my
> .xsession-errors related to this.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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