Re: wm in default installation

Matthieu Herrb [Wed Jan 12, 2005 at 03:53:57PM +0100] wrote:
>Blackbox (and fluxbox too) is more or less broken on all 64 bit arches 
>(alpha, amd64, sparc64). Look at the XChangeProperty() manual page 
>carefully, observe that in the case of a 32 bit value to be set/get you 
>need to pass a pointer to a long or unsigned long (yes it's weird, but 
>it was designed this way) and then look at the code that passes pointers 
>to int or unsigned int. This means memory corruption.
>
Huh, nice. So blackbox/fluxbox isn't an option for a new default wm,
right?!

>Many other X applications share this kind of bugs BTW.