Debian Bug report logs - #5736
fvwm2: spaces in Restart command

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Package: fvwm2; Maintainer for fvwm2 is (unknown);

Reported by: joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)

Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 19:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 2.0.43-BETA-0

Done: unknown

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>:
Bug#5736; Package fvwm2. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen):
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug in fvwm2 Version: 2.0.43-BETA-0
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 96 19:45 MET
Package: fvwm2
Version: 2.0.43-BETA-0

-- Please describe the problems with the package here


install-fvwm2menu sometimes doesn't like to be called with one extra space
in between the "Restart" option and the command to run:

If I execute
  /usr/bin/install-fvwm2menu --install WindowManagers afterstep/start none Afterstep "Restart /usr/bin/X11/afterstep"

then the menuentry WindowManagers/Afterstep will work, but if I execute
  /usr/bin/install-fvwm2menu --install WindowManagers afterstep/start none Afterstep "Restart  /usr/bin/X11/afterstep"

Then the same menuentry does work (note the extra space between Restart
and /usr/bin/X11/afterstep in the above line).
Fvwm2 will output the following error message, upon selecting the
WindowManagers/Afterstep menuentry:
  [FVWM][Done]: <<ERROR>> Call of ' /usr/bin/X11/afterstep' failed!!!!

(and again, there's the extra space just after the first quote).

Yes, seems trivial, but it also means the window-manager menu entries
(like the ones shown above) don't work in the menu-package.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.1
Kernel Version: Linux rulcmc 2.0.26 #9 Sat Nov 23 11:48:28 MET 1996 i586

Versions of the packages this package depends on:
libc5	Version: 5.4.7-6
xlib    Version: 3.1.2-7
xpm4.7	Version: 3.4h-1

--- /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc (modified conffile)
 [..removed some hundred lines, as I don't think they are
 appropriate].
-- This bug report was generated using the debmake bug tool


Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>:
Bug#5736; Package fvwm2. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 5736@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
To: 5736@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#5736: Bug in fvwm2 Version: 2.0.43-BETA-0
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 19:39:31 +0200
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joost witteveen:
> install-fvwm2menu sometimes doesn't like to be called with one extra space
> in between the "Restart" option and the command to run:

This is actually a bug in fvwm2 itself, not in
install-fvwm2menu. I think it will be fixed in the next version
beta (but I can't remember for sure, and I'm not the mailing
lists any more).

-- 
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Changed bug title. Request was from Austin Donnelly <austin@greenend.org.uk> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Information forwarded to Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>:
Bug#5736; Package fvwm2. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer):
Extra info received and forwarded to maintainer. Copy sent to Austin Donnelly <and1000@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #17 received at 5736-maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl (Remco Blaakmeer)
To: 5736-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Old bugs need to be looked at
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 12:25:34 +0100 (CET)
This is an automated message sent to all bugs older than one year.

This bug is very old. Please take a look at it and see if you can fix it.
If it has already been fixed, please close it.

If you have problems fixing it or if you don't have the time to fix it,
please ask the people on debian-devel@lists.debian.org for help, so that
at least the oldest bugs can be solved before Debian 2.0 is released.

Remco Blaakmeer


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