Re: FVWM: <Use comma instead of whitespace>

Thomas Adam <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.fvwm
Message-ID <20180227185016.4xotympx33ivx4xi@laptop>
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 07:45:50PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 05:51:52PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Am 2018-02-27 hackte Dominik Vogt in die Tasten:
> > > Is the file that defines the root menu in this list?  Have you
> > > double checked the menu name and the binding?  Is there any
> > > problem with numlock or the other sticky modifier keys?
> > 
> > I have currently NO root menu, I just saw, that there is  a  non-visible
> > character in the filename which prevented my "tdfvwm-daemon" to read the
> > config file like
> > 
> > PipeRead `tdfvwm-daemon Menus.d`
> 
> Is the "no root menu" issue solved then?
> 
> That leaves the "comma" warning.  If you can't find it by looking
> at your files, try adding more "echo" commands to narrow it down
> to a specific place.  It's probably in a style or a window
> circulation command (Next, All, etc.).  Maybe this grep helps:
> 
>   grep "[[(].*," ~/.fvwm/*

The other option here is to run:

  fvwm-convert-2.6

over the main fvwm configuration file.  (See the manpage as this will follow
Read statements).  I suspect---given what we're seeing here---that stray
commas are the least of Michelle's concerns, which the conversion script ought
to address.

-- Thomas Adam
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