Re: FVWM: '--' key action has stopped working in the master

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:35:31AM +0200, Alexander Gromnitsky wrote:
> So I have
> 
>   Key F4 A  M Close
> 
> in .fvwm2rc for closing any window on Alt-F4. But I want the xterm app
> to be exempt from such a treatment.
> 
> W/ fvwm-2.6.5, this configuration has been working flawlessly for me:
> 
>   $ cat ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc 
>   Key F4 A  M Close
>   Key (XTerm) F4 A  M --
> 
>   $ grep allowSendEvents ~/.Xdefaults 
>   XTerm*allowSendEvents: true
> 
> Today I've built fvwm from the master branch & have noticed that the
> above trick doesn't work any more--the xterm window gets closed when I
> press Alt-F4.
> 
> What could be the culprit?

A bug in a patch from 2013:  By accident the variable that
indicated a "--" action was evaluated before being set.  I've
pushed a fix to the branch "dv/devel".  Can you please try that
and see if it solves your problem?  It does for me.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt