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RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
- From: Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbe at cistron dot nl>
- To: gsw at agere dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, huntharo at msu dot edu
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:20:12 +0200
- Subject: RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
Gerald Williams wrote:
> BTW, WindowMaker exits with a SEGV on our systems. I haven't
> looked into it, but verified the problem on multiple systems
> so it's not isolated to my machine (all IBM laptops running
> Win2K/Cygwin, though). In all cases, wmaker begins to run and
> starts creating icons, etc., then throws up a screen reporting
> that it received a signal 11. I haven't had time to look into
> it yet.
Had the smae behaviour on W98SE.
WindowMaker copies its config files to the user home directory
($HOME/GNUstep/...).
If this directory is not binary mounted you get the signal 11.
Probably the reading code in WindowMaker opens the config files
in binary mode and then gets confused by the \r\n combinations
it gets from a text mounted filesystem.
If you mount the home directory as binary, no signal 11 and WindowMaker
works fine.
Ton van Overbeek