From guy at extragalactic.net Tue Oct 13 22:34:50 2009 From: guy at extragalactic.net (Guy B. Purcell) Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:34:50 -0700 Subject: BayLISA October meeting reminder Message-ID: <023E836F-2DE6-4140-88DD-B04917BC2406@extragalactic.net> The October meeting is this Thursday, Oct. 15. Details are on our website . -Guy P. S. Next month (Nov.), we'll be electing some new board members. If you're interested, just put together a "candidacy statement" (brief paragraph saying who you are, professionally, and why you'd like to be on the board) and post it to the baylisa@ list. From david at catwhisker.org Fri Oct 16 05:00:38 2009 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:00:38 -0700 Subject: [bagleyd@gwyn.tux.org: xlockmore-5.29.1 released] Message-ID: <20091016120038.GD1724@albert.catwhisker.org> I was going to mention this at last night's meeting, but got distracted a bit. The current version of xlockmore (the maintained version of "xlock") was 5.29 (since end of September). However, that version does not work for those of us who use window managers based on tvtwm. (It does work with twm; I normally use piewm -- and I'll be fairly surprised if anyone else reading this does.) The mode of failure is: | X Error of failed request: ?BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) | ?Major opcode of failed request: ?3 (X_GetWindowAttributes) | ?Resource id in failed request: ?0x45 | ?Serial number of failed request: ?82 | ?Current serial number in output stream: ?83 I sent a note off to the freebsd-ports list; the port maintainer requested that I contact the "upstream" maintainer, David A. Bagley, which I did. He encountered some issues recreating the symptoms -- seems he couldn't build tvtwm or piewm in an Ubuntu environment. He now has a FreeBSD environment for testing -- and was able to both recreate the symptom and provide a fix. As unpatched 5.29 could leave a system rather less protected than the person using it might expect (especially for those of us who use xautolock), he was fairly easily convinced to provide an interim point release, which was the catalyst for the below-forwarded note: ----- Forwarded message from David A Bagley ----- From: David A Bagley Subject: xlockmore-5.29.1 released To: xlock-announce at gwyn.tux.org Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:51:54 -0400 (EDT) Cc: david at catwhisker.org Hi Fixing a goof I made for the BSD folks. (pievwm and tvtwm runs mostly on them). xlockmore-5.29.1 as of 15 October 2009, the maintained version of xlock 5.29.1 Undo a cleanup in vroot.h, as xlock exits on startup with a BadWindow on pievwm and tvtwm. 5.29 juggler3d mode stolen from xscreensaver with help from Tim Auckland. Jouk Jansen made safe for VMS and fixed colour problem. nose: cleaned up for win32. Still do not know why this mode has bottom task bar. petri: crashed due to shift of int, fix from Dr Nigel Warr . petri improved for win32, should not be red all the time now. penrose should be working again. Other small fixes for life, etc. image: image set right away and added option -icononly to only display image when in password window Xinerama patch so the password window will be displayed on one screen thanks to Kaelyn Uhrain . (On the wish list would be to have password window on screen with mouse instead of first screen. SuSE patch set thanks to Stanislav Brabec and Petr Gajdos . For problems in code and compiler warnings: fixes build with GLTT and FTGL modules, return if fontset is null instead of crash, fixes strict-aliasing compiler warning, makes void function not returning anything. life3d: resync with my Java code for new patterns. xlockrc (use of xlock without system password) did not actually check if Key portion matched Again portion. Also now deletes null .xlockrc file when there is a mismatch. -- Cheers, /X\ David A. Bagley (( X bagleyd at tux.org http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/ \X/ xlockmore and more ----- End forwarded message ----- Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: