Re: wm in default installation

Bernd Ahlers wrote:
> 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?!

I'm slowly working on fixing the bugs.
The idea is that if it can get into a good enough shape, it will be 
imported.
In parallel we will provide a framework to make choosing a default 
window manager (or even a full environment like KDE, gnome or xfce) in a 
simple configuration file.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb

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