[bagleyd at gwyn.tux.org: xlockmore-5.29.1 released]

Fri Oct 16 05:00:38 PDT 2009

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 <bagleyd at gwyn.tux.org> -----

From: David A Bagley <bagleyd at gwyn.tux.org>
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
    <warr AT kp.uni-koeln.de>.  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 <satyr_22901 AT yahoo.com>.  (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 <sbrabec AT suse.cz> and
    Petr Gajdos <pgajdos AT suse.cz>.  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.
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