evilwm-lrd

the Larry Doolittle branch of Ciaran Anscomb's superb evilwm

Until Ciaran finds the time to process and integrate my work, I offer my evilwm modifications to the world for general use and further testing. In fact, Ciaran and I are (as of 2005-04-26) in contact and pulling our versions back together. Watch this space for the result!

2005-09-19 update: cross reference to evilwm-0.99.18. Ciaran absorbed a lot of my changes, and I'm folding a few that he didn't forward. So far, it looks really nice.

Original material, direct from Ciaran and sourceforge:

My mirrors of the above:

My contributions:

All my testing, usage, and development of evilwm is done with Debian sarge and sid, on x86 and x86_64 platforms.

Changelog

Behavior changes:

Replace logic to decide if we have a shaped window (cribbed from fvwm-2.5.10), see sourceforge bug 1188790
Revert CVS change to missing window behavior in handle_enter_event
Change punctuation of name/class window dimensions to match standard X practice
Add SIGUSR1 handler
Change MINSIZE from 15 to 14, see sourceforge bug 841845
Don't coerce window size to screen size, fixes xpdf -fullscreen, sourceforge bug 1119003

Build changes:

Add $(EXTRA_DEFINES) to Makefile
New options-permute script for testing build configurations
Stricter warning settings for gcc

Code cleanups (a.k.a. gratuitous changes):

Improve punctuation in comments
Use unions to avoid breaking strict alias rules in wm_state()
Use long instead of CARD32 for argument to XChangeProperty(), to be consistent with man page
Un-shadow variable p in remove_client debugging segment
Refactor logic in client_update_current
Cast unused paramters to void (four places)
Drop duplicate #include <X11/extensions/shape.h>s
Assign opt_term at compile time instead of malloc
Factor parse_grabmask and add_application out of main
Try to print ssize_t correctly and within strict standards
Clean up all signed/unsigned comparisons
Fuss with execvp casting and comments
Add or enhance a few LOG_DEBUGs
Factor apply_hints out of make_new_client
Cleaner casting of data for XGetWindowProperty

Triage of evilwm bugs listed on sourceforge:

number	description	status
724808	collision with Qt	doesn't reproduce in similar conditions, probably fixed
750060	terminal dragging issue	assign to aterm
751885	feature request: window resizing with keyboard	not attempted
778827	Feature request: custom keybindings	use xbindkeys
785134	problem closing xine	doesn't reproduce in similar conditions, probably fixed
787535	InstallShield apps don't draw right	similar conditions not available, unknown
841845	Very odd a/xterm problem	understood, not a bug
846144	Evilwm crashes on Fedora Core 1	similar conditions not available, unknown
902679	shaped windows disrupt alt-tab behaviour	fixed in CVS
1119003	bad interaction with xpdf -fullscreen	fixed in -lrd
1188790	one-rectangle shaped windows mishandled	fixed in -lrd
	windows deleted when changing virtual desktop	fixed in -lrd
	many option combinations fail to build	fixed in -lrd

The options-permute script that shows up in my version takes 56 minutes (on my Athlon 2600+) to check 4096 build combinations. gcc-3.3.4 and the options


-Os -Wall -std=c99 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -Wshadow -Waggregate-return -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wwrite-strings -Wundef -Wsign-compare -Wmissing-prototypes -Wredundant-decls

finds no compile-time errors, and only the following two warnings:

misc.c:31: warning: passing arg 2 of `execvp' from incompatible pointer type
screen.c:79: warning: `draw_outline' defined but not used

April 26, 2005
Larry Doolittle