FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Recently I was capturing stderr from fvwm for debug purposes, and I noticed that it contains some early error messages that look like they were generated by fvwm-menu-desktop. (The messages are identical to those seen when simply invoking fvwm-menu-desktop from a bash commandline with no args.)

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:56:19AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: Recently I was capturing stderr from fvwm for debug purposes, and I noticed that it contains some early error messages that look like they were generated by fvwm-menu-desktop. (The messages are identical to those seen when simply

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam writes: What version of FVWM are you using? Sorry: 2.6.1. (Sheesh, don't you hate morons who forget to give even the simplest basic info that would help you debug their problem?? :) Also: I've now eliminated my config as the source of this issue: Replaced my config with a null

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 07:38:49PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:56:19AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: Recently I was capturing stderr from fvwm for debug purposes, and I noticed that it contains some early error messages that look like they were generated by

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam writes: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 07:38:49PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:56:19AM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: Recently I was capturing stderr from fvwm for debug purposes, and I notic ed that it contains some early error messages that look like they were

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam writes: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 02:27:13PM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: In any case, to put this particular sub-question to rest: I just started fv wm with -f /dev/null and got the same results as earlier described. So agai n this seems to point away from anything having to do

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 04:04:34PM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: Thomas Adam writes: On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 02:27:13PM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: In any case, to put this particular sub-question to rest: I just started fv wm with -f /dev/null and got the same results as earlier

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Thomas Adam writes: I might have missed how you start FVWM normally. Yes. I'm pretty sure the way I start fvwm eliminates the possibility of it being due to a system-wide config file. I was not referring to -f invoking anything not in SetRCDefaults() and $(fvwm-config

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Glenn Golden
Here's the attachment. 18552 open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3 18552 open(/usr/lib/libXft.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 3 18552 open(/usr/lib/libXrender.so.1, O_RDONLY) = 3 18552 open(/usr/local/lib/libfontconfig.so.1, O_RDONLY)

Re: FVWM: Mysterious invocation of fvwm-menu-desktop

2011-07-23 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 05:50:49PM -0600, Glenn Golden wrote: Thomas Adam writes: I might have missed how you start FVWM normally. Yes. I'm pretty sure the way I start fvwm eliminates the possibility of it being due to a system-wide config file. OK. Alternative idea: If the info