Debian Bug report logs - #478979
ratpoison: recovers badly from tmpwm

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bruce V Chiarelli <mano155@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: ratpoison: recovers badly from tmpwm

Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:28:58 -0600

Package: ratpoison
Version: 1.4.3-1
Severity: normal


If I open twm using ratpoison's tmpwm feature, and then try to close it,
ratpoison doesn't respond. The manual indicates that ratpoison will take
over again. This may be part of what is described in #467076.

To reproduce:
1. Open ratpoison.
2. Hit "C-t :" and type "tmpwm twm"
3. Move any windows out of the way of the root, click the backround and
select Exit. Really Exit.
4. Ratpoison does not respond to commands until sending SIGHUP from a
terminal.

I have also reproduced this with metacity, killing it from a terminal.
Apparently, ratpoison does take over in some way. If the windows were
moved out of the way, as you would need to do to close twm, they should
stay put if there's no window manager in control. However, the windows
jump back into place and are maximized, as if ratpoison was trying to do
something.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ratpoison depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.0.3-1  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.0.3-1  X11 Testing -- Resource extension 

Versions of packages ratpoison recommends:
ii  9menu               1.8-1.1              Creates X menus from the shell
ii  gnome-terminal [x-t 2.22.1-1             The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal 4:4.0.66+svn791114-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii  menu                2.1.38               generates programs menu for all me
ii  rxvt [x-terminal-em 1:2.6.4-14           VT102 terminal emulator for the X 

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 478979@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Bernhard R. Link" <brlink@debian.org>

To: Bruce V Chiarelli <mano155@gmail.com>, 478979@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#478979: ratpoison: recovers badly from tmpwm

Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 10:49:15 +0200

* Bruce V Chiarelli <mano155@gmail.com> [080502 03:31]:
> If I open twm using ratpoison's tmpwm feature, and then try to close it,
> ratpoison doesn't respond. The manual indicates that ratpoison will take
> over again. This may be part of what is described in #467076.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1. Open ratpoison.
> 2. Hit "C-t :" and type "tmpwm twm"
> 3. Move any windows out of the way of the root, click the backround and
> select Exit. Really Exit.
> 4. Ratpoison does not respond to commands until sending SIGHUP from a
> terminal.

Thanks for your report. I'll forward it upstream.

> I have also reproduced this with metacity, killing it from a terminal.
> Apparently, ratpoison does take over in some way. If the windows were
> moved out of the way, as you would need to do to close twm, they should
> stay put if there's no window manager in control. However, the windows
> jump back into place and are maximized, as if ratpoison was trying to do
> something.

If you can also use the newwm feature. That will replace ratpoison with
the choosen window manager, but most classic window managers in Debian
have the ability to switch back to ratpoison.
(I don't have twm installed, and vtwm has a little bug in its
/etc/menu-methods/vtwm (remove the & there and run update-menus) but
otherwise that is usually the more stable way to switch between window
managers.

Hochachtungsvoll,
	Bernhard R. Link

Message #21 received at 478979-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: brlink@debian.org (Bernhard R. Link)

To: 478979-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#478979: fixed in ratpoison 1.4.4-1

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:18:42 +0000

Source: ratpoison
Source-Version: 1.4.4-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ratpoison, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

ratpoison_1.4.4-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/r/ratpoison/ratpoison_1.4.4-1.diff.gz
ratpoison_1.4.4-1.dsc
  to pool/main/r/ratpoison/ratpoison_1.4.4-1.dsc
ratpoison_1.4.4-1_sparc.deb
  to pool/main/r/ratpoison/ratpoison_1.4.4-1_sparc.deb
ratpoison_1.4.4.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/r/ratpoison/ratpoison_1.4.4.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 478979@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> (supplier of updated ratpoison package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:06:19 CEST
Source: ratpoison
Binary: ratpoison
Architecture: source sparc
Version: 1.4.4-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
Description: 
 ratpoison  - keyboard-only window manager
Closes: 478977 478979 484957 498348
Changes: 
 ratpoison (1.4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * new upstream version
   - now with libXft support, thus new dependencies
   - fixes tempwm issuses (Closes: 478979)
   - new prevscreen and nextscreen binding (Closes: 498348)
   - new input history:
     no longer needs libreadline and separate histories (Closes: 478977)
   * make patches compatible with v3 dsc (Closes: 484957)
   * bump Standards-Version
   - support parallel in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
   - noopt and nostrip only space delmited
   * no longer needs config.guess and config.sub (and thus no autotools-dev)
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