Re: [rox-users] Announcing rox-tasklist 1.0

[Robert L. <pn...@ac...>]

Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:02:02PM -0500, Robert Lowe wrote:
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>>Finally, John Williams and I have finished rox-tasklist 1.0
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>>It works in sawfish, and in a few other window managers, but still has 
>>problems with enlightenment.
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>Hello.
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>I have just tried rox-tasklist 1.0 from the RPMS I have just
>produced on my Red Hat Linux 7.3 system with both rox-1.2.2
>and rox-1.3.3, using the IceWM and Sawfish window managers.
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>The application is not behaving as expected. I have just
>started a rox panel with the command
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>$ rox -b=MyPannel &
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>then I have opened the Apps directory from the icon in
>the panel. From there I dragged the rox-tasklist entry
>to the panel, but it did not work. rox just answered
>with a dialog box with the message "Applet quit
>without ever creating a widget". But if a click on
>the rox-tasklist entry, it starts in a new window,
>showing the list of current tasks. If I look inside
>the rox-tasklist directory and click on the AppletRun,
>I get the message 
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>/usr/apps/rox-tasklist/AppletRun: valgrind.log: No such file or directory
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>in a terminal window.
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>Any clue on what is going on?
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>Romildo
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Oh dear, it would appear that I left a debugging thingy in AppletRun.

We debug using valgrind and it produces valgrind.log.  I took out the 
call to valgrind, but I forgot to remove the redirection of stderr to 
valgrind.log.    The problem is on line 40 of AppletRun, the line reads 
as follows:

exec $BIN $@ 2>valgrind.log

If you take out everything from 2> to the end of the line it should work 
just fine.

The new line should read:

exec $BIN $@

We didn't catch it because we have valgrind.log in our directories for 
debugging purposes.  Sorry about that, it's just a little distribution 
bug.  I'll clear that up.  We'll be having a bug fix release coming out 
soon anyhow.  Someone pointed out a stability bug, and we patched it up. 
 I'll probably release another version here in about 2-3 days.  I'm 
going to make sure I can't locate any other problems.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

-Robert Lowe

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