On 19 February 2015 at 12:23, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> Control: found -1 1:2.6.5.ds-4
>
> On 2013-11-25 21:45:33 -0800, Vincent W. Chen wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> > Arne Wichmann <a...@anhrefn.saar.de> writes:
>> >
>> >> begin  quotation  from Dan Espen (in <ic61s0x85c....@home.home>):
>> >>> Arne Wichmann <a...@anhrefn.saar.de> writes:
>> >>>
>> >>> > begin  quotation  from Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare) (in 
>> >>> > <c2dddb22b0ae094db5f3ce04cb9e2f2615a20...@cinurcna02.e2k.ad.ge.com>):
>> >>> >> > Ok, doing some tests it seems that the logic of setting window/icon 
>> >>> >> > names in fvwm is broken.
>> >>> >> > The behavior depends on the ability of the client > to do set 
>> >>> >> > UTF8-properties, but it is broken in any case. Tests follow:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Just on a hunch, you might want to try this version:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>    ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/fvwm-2.6.3.tar.gz
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> A patch was added in 2.6.4 that seems really suspicious to me.  For my
>> >>> >> own purposes, I've been reverting the patch to event.c that relates to
>> >>> >> icon names because it's been causing segfaults for me.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The problem doesn't seem to appear with this version.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've reverted the patch in the 2.6.6 branch.
>> >>> If you have time I'd like to hear if it helps.
>> >>
>> >> If you have an easy way to find and install it I will take a look...
>> >
>> > Sadly, our snapshot building stopped a few years ago.
>> > You can check out from CVS and build, or wait until
>> > Debian picks up a recent 2.6.6.
>> >
>> Could you attach/send the patch to me? I'd like to backport this into
>> Debian if possible.
>
> Any news?

This looks as though it was "fixed" by being commented out.  Note that
this is not desirable and as the person who seems to have introduced
the bug, I might look into it at some point in the future.

What is it you're expecting in terms of confirmation?  It'll be in the
next FVWM release whenever that is.

-- Thomas Adam


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