1.7.161 report
Donald A. Peterson (donald@nd.edu)
Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:58:59 -0500 (EST)
I really have not seen any important or blatant problems with this version
and I have been runing it for a week now (since Dec 30). I only have
nitpicks. ;-P The errors below are what get directed to stderr, I
don't really see any functional problems.
1) Upon closing any Wharf, I get a lot of X errors: viz.
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 4 (X_DestroyWindow)
Resource id in failed request: 0x4400001
Serial number of failed request: 1501
Current serial number in output stream: 1504
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 62 (X_CopyArea)
Resource id in failed request: 0x3c00006
Serial number of failed request: 1266
Current serial number in output stream: 1269
They always appear in pairs of opcodes 4,62 and usually 3 or 4 at a time.
2) Another Wharf issue is that the _first_ Wharf started in a session
reports several X Errors (Actually 1 per swallowed app, I believe):
XWharf: X Error
Request 2, Error 3 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 7, Error 3 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 8, Error 3 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 28, Error 3 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 28, Error 3 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 28, Error 3 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 28, Error 3 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 14, Error 9 0, Type: 0
XWharf: X Error
Request 12, Error 3 0, Type: 0
However, if I stop the module and then start it again, no errors are
reported. Odd. I can post the relevant portion of my ~GLA/wharf if it's
useful/interesting to the developers, but I'll save space here.
3) Another possible Wharf thing. Around 1.7.152 aspostit stopped being
swallowed nicely. It now reports "Error: Shell widget PostItNote has zero
width and/or height" and I have an empty panel in the Wharf. If I start
aspostit alone from the command line, it works just fine. I have
recompiled aspostit just for good measure to no avail. Any ideas?
That's it for "errors". I really like the way theme handling is
done---obviously some good thought went into it. Being able to just keep
a gzipped theme tarball and select a theme from the startmenu is
GREAT! If I may make a suggestion for the theme handling, though, it
would be _really_ nice if the background image was loaded to the
background of the desktop you're on when you select the theme as opposed
to always changing desktop 0. I honestly don't know how hard this would
be to integrate.
As I said, only nitpicky stuff. This is really a fine version and I say
go for a 1.8!
Thanks for all the great work!
-Don
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Donald A. Peterson | DPETERSO@.ND.EDU
Department of Physics | http://www.nd.edu/~dpeterso
University of Notre Dame | (219) 631-7716
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