Re: Bug in fluxbox-generate_menu?, was: Which lightweight window manager with menu auto-update?

[Daniel Horecki <morr+lists%morr.pl@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 09:03:29AM -0500, matthew sporleder wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Ottavio Caruso <
> ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
>     On 14 November 2013 16:36, Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost> 
> wrote:
>     > On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:11:05 +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>     >> I am looking for a recommendation for a lightweight manager that can
>     >> update itself after installing new packages and doesn't list non
>     >> existent applications.
>     >
>     > icewm does that.
> 
>     Installed icewm, no man page, odd!
> 
>     The only application listed was xterm. I am not sure how to configure
>     this wm now.
> 
>     > for all I know, pkgsrc does not maintain a list of (X11
>     > GUI) applications for window managers to peruse.
> 
>     Yes, can you expand on this. I suspect window managers won't expect to
>     find applications in /usr/pkg, although it's in the $PATH.
> 
>     Going to back to fluxbox, I had this error when trying to generate a menu:
> 
>     fluxbox-generate_menu
>     touch: ${HOME}/.fluxbox/menuconfig: No such file or directory
>     Warning: I couldn't create ${HOME}/.fluxbox/menuconfig
>     Fatal error: can't create or write to ${HOME}/.fluxbox/menu
> 
>     I researched on many forums and I thought it was a bug,
> 
>     I then found this old bug report:
>     http://sourceforge.net/p/fluxbox/bugs/835/
> 
>     I believe the version of fluxbox shipped with pkgscr is an update of
>     older one and it's possible that a broken fluxbox-generate_menu has
>     been carried over.
> 
>     Has anybody got a working copy of fluxbox and check if this is still
>     the case, before filling a bug report?
> 
> 
> I just did a make extract and don't see your issue.
> 
> Try putting a -x on the /bin/sh in that script and get some more info.

Problem is in patches/patch-aa. It puts \ in from of $HOME and later it
isn't removed. If you remove this char from installed script, it will
work. Of course it would be better to improve the patch.

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