Re: Window Maker crashing

[luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au]

In-Reply-To: <20020906190247.678b2254.larsen587@firemail.de>
Message-Id: <20020909235725.62F9259BE@ivory.research.canon.com.au>

On  6 Sep, larsen587 wrote:
>  there is an bug in wmaker. They are storing property files in binary 
>  mode and restoring  them in text mode. Just check out the 
>  sources, grep -lr for fopen, change the mode string of the property  
>  related source file from "r" to "rb", and finally invoke *make". 

Actually, that's basically what I did for the port (except I did it
for all open()s except popen()).  I suspect the problem may be with
libproplist - I recall that it's now separate from WM, and so I would
not have applied the same mods to it; and it is used by WPrefs.

The consequence is that after you use WPrefs.app to modify any of your
look and feel preferences, the file ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMState (and
maybe WMWindowAttributes), gets written out with CR/LF and when you
*next* start WM, it crashes.

My 0-effort workaround was to modify
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/exitscript to convert the files back to
Unix line endings via a utility called flip that I found via Google.

I'll have to dig up my notes on compiling WM, since it's stopping
with a complaint that _Xsetlocale is undefined, so I'll have to sort
that out.  And this time I'll track down liproplist and make the rb/wb
changes there, too.

luke