[ On Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 14:01:15 (+0100), Thomas Adam wrote: ] > Subject: Re: FVWM: EWMH hints and fvwm > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:54:33PM +0200, Ingo Wardinski wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have a simple question concerning ewmh and fvwm. Recently I was > > forced to recompile fvwm on my machine, since then I have been getting > > (.xsession-errors) > > > > [fvwm][__execute_function]: <<ERROR>> No such command > > 'EWMHActivateWindowFunc' > > > > which caused by this line in my settings > > > > DestroyFunc EWMHActivateWindowFunc > > > > at least this is the only occurence of it. I thought that I have > > missed something while compiling fvwm, because > > Yes -- that's right. Some actions on windows (such as when activity happens > if a window were in a EWMH-compliant taskbar) would trigger this window. > The error is harmless in this case, and you're definitely better off doing: > > DestroyFunc EWMHActivateWindowFunc > > Than you are doing this: > > AddToFunc EWMHActivateWindowFunc I Nop > > As that still grabs the window, which might be undesirable in some > situations. But either way, FVWM will still spit that line out to STDERR if > the function cannot be found, as the code expects to call it. > > > fvwm --version gives > > > > fvwm 2.5.26 compiled on Oct 8 2010 at 12:29:31 > > with support for: ReadLine, RPlay, Stroke, XPM, PNG, SVG, Shape, XShm, > > SM, Xinerama, XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS > > > > How can I add EWMH hints to the support list? I guess this is done > > while configuring the makefile, at least the manpage is telling that > > it should be possible to compile fvwm with EWMH hints. > > No, you get them all for free, you can't turn them off.
Thanks for reply, this is good to know. > > > p.s.: For some reasons I would like to stay with fvwm 2.5.26 > > Why? Well, it is not a profound reasoning, but I do have a collection of patches for round corners, translucency, and some other fancy features which only applies to this version. I'm not skilled enough to port them to a more recent version. greetz, ingo
