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

From: Dominik Vogt <dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:39:14 +0200

On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 06:51:29PM +0300, jappe_at_clinet.fi wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I've been trying to get FvwmCommand to work but to no avail.
>
> I load FvwmCommandS from my InitFunction in .fvwm2rc. But it refuses to
> work returning "dead pipe message": "FvwmCommandS: dead pipe".
>
>...
>
> Any idea what might be causing this?
> I'm running Linux 2.2.6, glibc-2.1.1-5 and the rest..

It's a known bug that surfaced with recent Linux kernels. There's
an easy fix if you don't mind to patch the sources. In the file
modules/FvwmCommand/FvwmCommandS.c you will find a line like

  SendText(Fd,"",0); /* tell fvwm that we are here */
             ^^^^
This has to be replaced with

  SendText(Fd," ",0); /* tell fvwm that we are here */
             ^^^^^

This has been fixed in the current stable fvwm release (2.2).
I has been in the development source in the current betas for
a few weeks.

Bye

Dominik ^_^

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Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 11:45:53 BST

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