spam and bugs

From: Rudolph T Maceyko (rm55@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 01:55:29 CET


--On Sunday, November 16, 2003 09:35:48 +0100 Richard Levitte - VMS
Whacker <levitte@lp.se> wrote:

> The problem has been fixed, and I'll try to be more attentive in the
> future.

Are you sure it's been fixed? :-)

Anyway, I'm not ready to abandon ctwm yet (as others have suggested
they are doing), but I do not have the time to work through the severe
bug with 3.7 that was reported by Bjorn Knutsson in March:

> The current version seems to have at least one glitch. Any key I map
> in the workspace context gets mapped out in every other context. Since
> I have the cursor keys mapped in workspace, that got pretty annoying
> fast, so I'm again back to running my version.
>
> I haven't (yet) looked into why it does this, but simple diff of my
> patch and the code in 3.7 reveals that the code in 3.7 does not match
> the code in my patch in at least one file (events.c).
>
> It does not look like the patch was mis-applied, but rather that
> someone changed it. Well, the change doesn't seem to work...
>
> It seems that some other patch has changed the WorkSpaceMgr structure
> a lot, and this is the cause. Which patch did this? Given the list of
> changes, I can't figure it out.

Has anyone been able to get past this? If not, I would suggest maybe
starting from patch3 again and going forward with each patch
individually. Any takers? :-)

Rudy



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