Re: FVWM: Re: Beta version 2.0.42 now ready

From: Jeff S. Elam <jselam_at_SSD.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 15:24:40 -0700

Well, to answer Chuck's questions:

1) Even a simple 1-button definition doesn't work. Nothing appears.
2) I'm running on a SUN Sparcstation2 with SunOS 4.1.3_U1

I compiled FvwmButtons with the Debug options turned on AND the -g flag.
After a few failed invocations I noticed a core file in my home directory.
Here's the stack from that file:

(dbx) where
xpmParseColors() at 0x174c8
xpmParseDataAndCreate() at 0x1517c
XpmCreateImageFromData() at 0x11d5c
PleaseAllocColor(color = 0xf7fff430), line 1139 in
"/home/jselam/fvwm/fvwm2.0/modules/FvwmButtons/FvwmButtons.c"
GetColor(name = 0x227c0 "Black"), line 1229 in
"/home/jselam/fvwm/fvwm2.0/modules/FvwmButtons/FvwmButtons.c"
RecursiveLoadData(b = 0x21d80, maxx = 0xf7fff568, maxy = 0xf7fff564), line 817
in "/home/jselam/fvwm/fvwm2.0/modules/FvwmButtons/FvwmButtons.c"
main(argc = 6, argv = 0xf7fff5f4), line 439 in
"/home/jselam/fvwm/fvwm2.0/modules/FvwmButtons/FvwmButtons.c"

This reminded me of earlier complaints on the mailing list about
incompatibilities between FvwmButtons and certain versions of libXpm. I'm
using version 3.4h. It so happens I have a copy of 3.4a lying around, so
I used that instead, and voila! It works.

Apparently there's still some incompatibility in there. Unfortunately, I
don't have the time to narrow it down any further. Hopefully Jarl or someone
else can use this information to find the problem.

-- 
-Jeff E.
jselam_at_ssd.intel.com
(Charles Hines) wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Justin" == Justin Zaglio <justin_at_watsun.cc.columbia.edu> writes:
> 
> Justin> Hi, all!
> Justin> I've been using .41 for a while now and everything's great.  I
> Justin> downloaded .42 today and compiled it; no problems there.  The problem
> Justin> is the 'new and improved FvwmButtons' module.  I can't seem to get it
> Justin> to do _anything_, let alone what it was doing before.  FvwmButtons is
> Justin> in the Init and Restart functions, and I rewrote the *FvwmButtons
> Justin> stuff to conform to (I think) the new format.  The relevant lines are
> Justin> included below.  All they do now is start up the Pager in the lower rh
> Justin> corner of the screen.  I get no errors in .xsession-errors, no
> Justin> disk-thrashing, nothing.  Can someone take a look at this, or perhaps
> Justin> confirm that something might be wrong (doubtful, it's probably me
> Justin> doing something stupid)?
> 
> I don't see anything right off the bat, but I do have another
> question.  Is it truly doing nothing, or do the non-swallow related
> buttons (like the ones that pop up xterms) appear ok and work or does
> no window appear at all (except for the unswallowed items normal
> windows, like Jeff below)?
> 
> Does an ultra simple button definition work (like 1 button)?
> 
> >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff S Elam <jselam_at_SSD.intel.com> writes:
> 
> Jeff> I have the same problem with the new FvwmButtons that Justin
> Jeff> has.  It starts up the Swallowed modules, but then does nothing.
> Jeff> I see no error messages anywhere and there's no "FvwmButtons"
> Jeff> process running, according to "ps".  I've sent emails to the
> Jeff> mailing list about this problem before, when Jarl first released
> Jeff> his new "FvwmButtons", and never got any response.
> 
> Jeff> Thinking it might be something in my configuration, I tried the
> Jeff> sample configuration straight out of the new Fvwmbuttons.man man
> Jeff> page.  It did the exact same thing.  It started the FvwmPager,
> Jeff> and then did nothing.
> 
> What platform are you both running under?
> 
> Jeff> With all the neat new features I've been hearing about, I'd
> Jeff> really like to try out the new FvwmButtons.  I hope someone can
> Jeff> help me figure out this problem soon....
> 
> Both of you (and anyone else having problems w/ Jarl's new
> FvwmButtons) please try compiling it w/ the debug info on (see
> FvwmButtons.h) and see if it tells anything.  The output will go to
> your .xerrors (or .xsession-errors) file.  Sift through it and see if
> it says anything that doesn't look quite right.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> *******************************************************************************
> Charles K. Hines <chuck_hines_at_vnet.ibm.com>
> IBM Logic Synthesis developer [BooleDozer (TM)]
> Martial Arts Instructor [Modern Arnis, Presas Style Filipino Martial Arts]
> 
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Received on Wed Apr 17 1996 - 17:22:29 BST