Re: FVWM: Trouble with FvwmCommand / FvwmCommandS (fwd)

From: Paul D. Smith <pausmith_at_nortelnetworks.com>
Date: 30 Apr 1999 12:21:24 -0400

%% Jarkko Lietolahti <jappe_at_clinet.fi> writes:

  jl> I've been trying to get FvwmCommand to work but to no avail.

  jl> I load FvwmCommandS from my InitFunction in .fvwm2rc. But it refuses to
  jl> work returning "dead pipe message": "FvwmCommandS: dead pipe".

Are you _sure_ you started as a module, as described in the man page?

This sounds like what you'd see if you just started it normally. When
reporting bugs it's always best to cut and paste the problem
code/text/whatever; in this case please show us your InitFunction. It
should contain something like:

  + "I" Module FvwmCommandS

Note the "Module" here, not "Exec" or similar.

  jl> Here's little ptrace from running forced FvwmCommandS 1 1 1 1 1,

You can't do that. You can't invoke a module from the command line like
that. Modules and FVWM uses pipes to talk to each other; a module
_MUST_ be spawned by the fvwm program so that these pipes exist
properly. There's no way to test a module by running it from the
command line; the error you got is exactly what I'd expect to see.

HTH.

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Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 11:23:33 BST

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