[RP] [FWD] Bug#79945: ratpoison: C-t ' (goto window by name) can crash ratpoison (from: address@hidden)

[Gergely Nagy]

Hi!

This is from the Debian BTS. I don't know if it is still relevant,
because a CVS snapshot (as of 2000-12-16) was uploaded after -2, and
I didn't test this problem with that yet.

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From: Martin Pool <address@hidden>
Subject: Bug#79945: ratpoison: C-t ' (goto window by name) can crash ratpoison
To: address@hidden
Message-Id: <address@hidden>
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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:52:05 +0000 (UTC)

Package: ratpoison
Version: 0.0.5-2
Severity: normal

The C-t ' command in ratpoison prompts for a string, and then goes to a window
whose name begins with that string.  

Typing a string that matches no window, or pressing RET to submit an 
empty string will often but not always crash ratpoison and (if run 
from .xsession) terminate the whole X session.

~/.xsession-errors contains

    ratpoison: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)!

Happy hacking!
-- 
Martin

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux choleric 2.2.17 #3 Sun Dec 3 02:15:45 UTC 2000 i686 
unknown

Versions of the packages ratpoison depends on:
ii  libc6          2.2-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  xlibs          4.0.1-12       X Window System client libraries


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Gergely Nagy \ mhp/|8]
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