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RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
- From: Harold L Hunt <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbe at cistron dot nl>, gsw at agere dot com, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com, huntharo at msu dot edu
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 14:45:20 EDT
- Subject: RE: Best place for WindowMaker, Openbox, etc.?
Ton van Overbeek,
I suspect that the real solution here would be for me to link Cygwin's
automode.o into WindowMaker, thus allowing WindowMaker to run regardless of
the mount type of $HOME/GNUstep/. I'll see what I can do about that...
Harold
Ton van Overbeek <tvoverbe@cistron.nl> said:
> Gerald Williams wrote:
> > BTW, WindowMaker exits with a SEGV on our systems. I haven't
> > looked into it, but verified the problem on multiple systems
> > so it's not isolated to my machine (all IBM laptops running
> > Win2K/Cygwin, though). In all cases, wmaker begins to run and
> > starts creating icons, etc., then throws up a screen reporting
> > that it received a signal 11. I haven't had time to look into
> > it yet.
>
> Had the smae behaviour on W98SE.
> WindowMaker copies its config files to the user home directory
> ($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
>