twm-1.0.10

[bdubbs@…]

New point version.

[thomas]

Just tried to use it as a drop-in upgrade. Failed as the window titlebars disappeared. Downgrading to 1.0.9 brought them back again.

So i think instructions/configuration needs to be reviewed.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Time to go back to work. Will start with xorg, but will not to ati/amd video drivers or libwacom.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 19947.

[Pierre Labastie]

Reopened the ticket, since I have the same issue as Thomas: no title bars...

And also no menu when clicking in an empty region of the screen.

[Pierre Labastie]

Same as Thomas, downgrading to 1.0.9 brings windows title bars back.

Did some comparisons: the twmrc files are identical for both version. The binaries /usr:bin/twm differ, of course.

[Bruce Dubbs]

I didn't check title bars, but menu when clocking on the empty region of the screen worked for me.

[Pierre Labastie]

Replying to bdubbs:

I didn't check title bars, but menu when clocking on the empty region of the screen worked for me.

Well, title bars are there or not. If you did not notice anything, they were there as usual ...

Are you using still a non UTF-8 locale? AH, that's it: using LANG=C startx, I get the title bars!

I guess Thomas uses de_DE.UTF-8... And I use fr_FR.UTF-8. Could you try LANG=en_US.UTF-8 startx?

So it must be a parsing problem: when doing a diff between build trees, it looks like some bison/flex generated files have been modified.

[Bruce Dubbs]

I use LANG=en_US.UTF-8 by default now. I did try 'export LANG=C; startx twm'

In either case the xterm and xclock title bars were present. I have no problem with the menu on the screen for exit. etc.

[Pierre Labastie]

I've built legacy too (not the other fonts). But shouldn't be the problem, since I get the title bars when using LANG=C. Note that If I use "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 startx", there are no title bars, and the menu fails as well.

One direction for digging: do you use the UTF-8 locale while building too?

Oh, and another question: what is your version of the Xorg server? Mine is 1.19.6. I see some weird messages about fonts when starting X:

[    13.927] (==) FontPath set to:
        ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/misc/,
        ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/TTF/,
        ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/OTF/,
        ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,
        ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/,
        ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/

But nothing tells what the value of prefix is. There are messages of the type:

_FontTransOpen: Unable to Parse Address ${prefix}/share/fonts/X11/misc/

And there is also a message:

twm: unable to open fontset "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*"

The last message does not appear if using LANG=C.

FWIW, I've installed Xorg in /usr.

[Bruce Dubbs]

I do use en_US.utf8 (not en_US.UTF-8) for building but I don't think that makes a difference.

X.Org X Server 1.19.6
...
[ 82365.571] (==) FontPath set to:
   /opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/misc/,
   /opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/,
   /opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/OTF/,
   /opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,
   /opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/,
   /opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/

There is no 'prefix' in my Xorg.0.log, but it appears that there is some sort of issue with twm finding fonts on your system.

I can find on mention of 'twm' in any log.

I do not know how to handle this because I cannot duplicate the problem.

[Pierre Labastie]

OK, I think I've found what is wrong: the book states that Xorg Fonts are only needed at runtime for xorg-server. But actually, configure looks for font-utils, and issues a warning if it is not found. Then:

• if not found: you get "checking for root directory for font files ...", then the warning, then "${datarootdir}/fonts/X11" (and I guess this is what gets expanded to ${prefix}share/fonts/X11, i.e. there is one missing stage of expansion), then default font paths to ${FONTROOTDIR}/misc, etc
• if found: you get "checking for root directory for font files ... /usr/share/fonts/X11, then the paths are /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc, etc

So it means that Xorg Fonts should be built before xorg-server so that font-utils be available. I'll change the book.

[Pierre Labastie]

Fixed at r19956. Note that although the fix is in the X server, something has changed in twm, which triggered the bug...