Re: FVWM: Error messages or increased verbosity

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:21:04 +0000

On 25 Aug 2004 10:40:43 +0200, Dalibor Straka wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:12:03PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > On 24 Aug 2004 21:10:28 +0200, Dalibor Straka wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:37:03PM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > > > On 24 Aug 2004 15:48:32 +0200, Dalibor Straka wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > i downloaded two config files. One of them writes on stderr:
> > > > > <<ERROR>> can't load picture sound.xpm
> > > > > and the second one doesn't even it can't find it either!
> > > > > How to enable this error messages?
> > > >
> > > > If you think an error message is not produced in some cases, please post
> > > > the config line demonstrating this. Always specify your fvwm version.
> > >
> > > The problem is, that those configs are realy HUGE. Is there an option
> > > to disable error messages?
> >
> > No. There are only options documented in the man pages.
>
> I can't find the right options for enable/disable error messages in man
> fvwm. Do you know them?

As I said, if such option is not in the man page, it does not exist.
The intended operation is to always print missing-image errors. "Silent"
prefix may suppress some kind of errors, but not this one.

> > > My fvwm version is the latest unstable 2.5.10.
> > >
> > > The exact problem is with FvwmButtons,
> > > *FvwmBottomBar: (20x1, Padding 3 4, Left, \
> > > Icon sound.xpm, Action "Exec exec gnome-volume-control")
> > > The icon sound.xpm doesn't exist and i expected the error message
> > > above.
> >
> > This means that FvwmButtons silently ignores the missing image problem.
> > You (or someone else) are welcome to provide a patch for this case.
>
> Not exactly, the same line in different config produces an error msg ;).

The error you posted is from the colorset code, not FvwmButtons, so the
line is definitelly different. Something like: Colorset Pixmap sound.xpm.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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