Re: FVWM: Error messages or increased verbosity

From: Dalibor Straka <dast_at_panelnet.cz>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:27:59 +0200

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:21:04AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> 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.

I seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, the first config, that writes an error is
complainig about missing sound.xpm, because it misses it at different
place!

Thank you very much,
-- Dalibor
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