Thanks for the reply.
> > By the way, I have sent a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/cgi-bin/fvwm-bug/incoming?id=1146>
> >
> > Is that really the right place, or is it better to use
> > fvwm-workers@fvwm.org ?
>
> Yes, but apparently the bug reports have not been forwarded to
> the mailing list for ages, so nobody read them :-/
OK, so here is that bug report. It includes a patch to fix it.
Note that emacs buffers with names like *mail* in separate Emacs
frames can easily create window titles containing *'s, so I think
it's worth to fix it.
------- Start of forwarded message -------
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 10:22:26 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FvwmWindowMenu and stars
Full_Name: Markus Rost
Version: 2.5.8
CVS_Date:
OS: GNU/linux
X_Server:
Submission from: (NULL) (129.70.14.216)
After the Fvwm commands
Module FvwmWindowMenu
Exec exec xterm -name "*xterm*"
SendToModule FvwmWindowMenu Menu
window "*xterm*" is listed in the menu, but with empty title.
You get also an error:
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/var/tmp/fvwm/install2/libexec/fvwm/2.5.9/FvwmWindowMenu line 331.
[FVWM][scanForPixmap]: <<WARNING>> Couldn't load image from
xterm
The reason is that "*" in menu labels needs to be quoted as "**".
I don't know the proper fix, but the following patch works fine for me.
*** /var/tmp/local/libexec/fvwm/2.5.8/FvwmWindowMenu.~1~ Thu Feb 12
15:52:27 2004
- --- /var/tmp/local/libexec/fvwm/2.5.8/FvwmWindowMenu Fri Feb 27 17:01:51
2004
***************
*** 324,329 ****
- --- 324,333 ----
$format =~ s/%i/&Shorten($window{$id}->{icon},
$opt->{maxlen})/ge;
$format =~ s/%c/&Shorten($window{$id}->{class},
$opt->{maxlen})/ge;
$format =~ s/%r/&Shorten($window{$id}->{resource},
$opt->{maxlen})/ge;
+
+ # escape *'s
+ $format =~ s/\*/**/g;
+
$format =~ s/%x/$window{$id}->{x}/g;
$format =~ s/%y/$window{$id}->{y}/g;
$format =~ s/%d/$window{$id}->{desk}/g;
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