Well then I guess the "fix" at the dwm side is simple: add a note to the CAVEATS section of dwm.1 explaining the situation and advising to use the 1.4 series until Sun fixes this (instead of adding workarounds for workarounds for ...).
Greetings, Sander. PS. I know your emotions and share them, but please word things in an "acceptable" way in the manpage ;-)
