Re: AfterStep bug
Ethan (allanon@crystaltokyo.com)
Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:58:38 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Gregory D Lewis wrote:
> My start menu contains several #_nop files. 1_nop contains the text `Nop " "'
> which produces a blank menu item correctly. 0_nop and 3_nop are blank files
> however and end up in the final else of the code. I didn't see any .rej files
> here during patching, so I assume they are supposed to be blank?
Ah ha. Now I being to see the problem. patch should remove those files
during patching, but doesn't by default. Use "patch -E" when applying
the patches.
> Seems to occur for me with the initial setting of jpeg backgrounds. I also
> use a jpeg background with my xdm configuration (which may or may not be
> relevant).
Pager (under some configurations) will write a ".small" file, which
contains a smaller version of the pixmap displayed in pager. This file
is an xpm, no matter what the format of the desktop background image
normally is.
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