xlockmore-5.29: "BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)" using virtual wm

Marius Nünnerich marius at nuenneri.ch
Sun Oct 11 20:26:26 UTC 2009


Hi David,

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 20:54, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> This is running FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE r197725; I'm in the habit of
> updating installed ports on my laptop daily (after updating the
> stable/6 slice).
>
> The xlockmore port is at 5.29, updating 01 Oct 2009.
>
> I normally use the piewm Window Manager (I got used to tvtwm back in
> '93, and piewm is based on it and is very similar).
>
> If I try to issue "xlock -mode random" using either piewm or tvtwm, I
> now get:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>  Major opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GetWindowAttributes)
>  Resource id in failed request:  0x45
>  Serial number of failed request:  82
>  Current serial number in output stream:  83
>
> If I exit either of those Window Managers and fire up twm, xlock does
> not issue that message, and seems to run normally (at least in most
> modes).
>
> I believe that this change in behavior coincided with the update to
> xlockmore (01 Oct); I didn't mention it earlier because something odd
> also appears to have happened with DRI support recently, and I wasn't
> clear enough on the interrelationships to be reasonably confident that I
> was reporting things properly.
>
> I also run stable/7 and head slices (each with the misc/compat6x port
> installed, so I'm using a shared /usr/local among all slices).
> xlockmore appears to run OK in 7.2-STABLE r197901 and head r197928,
> though I'm unable to run X with DRI enabled in those environments.
>
> In checking the Net for other reports of similarissues, I see that
> xlockmore has had issues in the past with virtual window managers (ref.
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309760>, from Thu, 19
> May 2005 11:18:03 UTC).
>
> Would it make more sense (for getting the issue resolved) for me to try
> reverting xlockmore to the previous version or some other approach?
> While I'm OK hacking code, I certainly don't claim much in-depth
> understanding of much X-related code; on the other hand, I do have local
> mirrors of the FreeBSD CVS & SVN repositories handy.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peace,
> david
> --
> David H. Wolfskill                              david at catwhisker.org
> Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil.
>
> See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
>

Could you please write to David A. Bagley <bagleyd at tux.org> and
explain this problem to him? He is the current maintainer of
xlockmore.


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list