"Vincent W. Chen" <vin...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Dan Espen <des...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> Arne Wichmann <a...@anhrefn.saar.de> writes:
>>
>>> begin  quotation  from Dan Espen (in <ic61s0x85c....@home.home>):
>>>> Arne Wichmann <a...@anhrefn.saar.de> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > begin  quotation  from Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare) (in 
>>>> > <c2dddb22b0ae094db5f3ce04cb9e2f2615a20...@cinurcna02.e2k.ad.ge.com>):
>>>> >> > Ok, doing some tests it seems that the logic of setting window/icon 
>>>> >> > names in fvwm is broken.
>>>> >> > The behavior depends on the ability of the client > to do set 
>>>> >> > UTF8-properties, but it is broken in any case. Tests follow:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Just on a hunch, you might want to try this version:
>>>> >>
>>>> >>    ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/fvwm-2.6.3.tar.gz
>>>> >>
>>>> >> A patch was added in 2.6.4 that seems really suspicious to me.  For my
>>>> >> own purposes, I've been reverting the patch to event.c that relates to
>>>> >> icon names because it's been causing segfaults for me.
>>>> >
>>>> > The problem doesn't seem to appear with this version.
>>>>
>>>> I've reverted the patch in the 2.6.6 branch.
>>>> If you have time I'd like to hear if it helps.
>>>
>>> If you have an easy way to find and install it I will take a look...
>>
>> Sadly, our snapshot building stopped a few years ago.
>> You can check out from CVS and build, or wait until
>> Debian picks up a recent 2.6.6.
>>
> Could you attach/send the patch to me? I'd like to backport this into
> Debian if possible.

We got email indicating the patch was applied:

From: "Schaaf, Jonathan P (GE Healthcare)" <jonathan.p.sch...@ge.com>
Subject: Re: CVS dane: * fvwm/events.c (HandlePropertyNotify): Disable prior 
fix suspected of causing
To: "@HEALTH CST" <c...@ge.com>
Cc: FVWM CVS <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 21:11:53 +0000 (5 days, 17 hours, 26 minutes ago)

Upstream FVWM has reverted the "fix" that causes the MR gimp crash.

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: c...@math.uh.edu [mailto:c...@math.uh.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 11:21 AM
To: fvwm-workers@fvwm.org
Subject: CVS dane: * fvwm/events.c (HandlePropertyNotify): Disable prior fix 
suspected of causing

CVSROOT:        /home/cvs/fvwm
Module name:    fvwm
Changes by:     dane    13/11/09 11:20:50

Modified files:
        .              : Tag: branch-2_6 ChangeLog 
        fvwm           : Tag: branch-2_6 events.c 

Log message:
* fvwm/events.c (HandlePropertyNotify): Disable prior fix suspected of causing 
problems.

-- 
Dan Espen

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