[Magick-bugs] ImageMarick 6.3.2-8 issue with fvwm2

[Rich Cook]

You are hilarious.  You have to actually read the file to get  
information from it.  LOL  It shows how the command is being executed  
by fvwm2, which might give you your answer.

I have a better version of the script for you.  Let's say the path to  
the "real" display is /usr/local/bin/display.  Then your script  
should be like this.  If display is somewhere else, you'll have to  
change /usr/local/bin/display to whatever is correct.
When you're done, then do this:

cat $HOME/display.debug


#!/usr/bin/env bash
exec $HOME/display.debug 2>&1
echo display launched on $(date) as $0 "$@"
/usr/local/bin/display  "$@"


  Note:  don't forget to do the chmod 775 thing on the script that's  
very important

On Sep 12, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Toufique, Imam wrote:

> I did exactly what you said, and the file appears in my home dir.   
> I am not sure what that proved though.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Cook [mailto:rcook at llnl.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 12:36 PM
> To: Toufique, Imam
> Cc: magick-bugs at imagemagick.org
> Subject: Re: [Magick-bugs] ImageMarick 6.3.2-8 issue with fvwm2
>
> You need to find out what it means to "launch from an fvwm2 window
> manager."  What does it do exactly?
> One way to do this is to create a shell script, call it "display" and
> put it in your PATH before ImageMagick's display.  Put the following
> in the script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env bash
> echo display launched on $(date) as $0 $* > $HOME/display.debug
>
> Be sure to make this script executable:
> chmod 755 display
>
> Now try to "launch from within fvwm2" .  A file called display.debug
> should appear in your home directory.  If not, temporarily move the
> "real" display program to display.backup and replace it with the
> script from above.  If that doesn't work,  then fvwm2 is not actually
> running display and your problem is with fvwm2, which it actually is
> anyway.
>
>
> On Sep 12, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Toufique, Imam wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> We have been using ImageMagick 6.1.7-5 version where we actually can
>> launch the "display" command from fvwm2 window manager directly (not
>> with any xterm support).  Recently we have compiled 6.3.5-8 version
>> and
>> we can no longer launch the "display" program within fvwm2
>> anymore.  We
>> launch this within an xterm as usual, but it no longer works directly
>> from an fvwm2 window manager.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Imam
>>
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