On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> 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 */
> ^^^^^
Thanks, it made it work...
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jappe_at_iki.fi
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Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 12:03:11 BST