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From: "Brett G. Person" <person@atlantis.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Filemanager patch. I hope.
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Pat



Haven't been able to run X since before I got this patch file. I haven't 
tested this at all. Hope it works.

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Sledge@SledgeHammer.org (Sledge Hammer) wrote:

>>When I click on Xfilemanager, (default applications under fvwm), the 
>>window pops up, then immediately disapears.  Is there a buggy version out 
>>with the slackware set?

Here is a patch to one of the files in the sources that fixes this
problem:

*** dir_orig.c	Fri Sep 24 05:57:36 1993
--- dir.c	Sat Jan  6 20:39:28 1996
***************
*** 256,263 ****
  		drawDir (dir_area, dir, b, b);
  	}
  
! 	if (dir->x + 24 + 8*strlen(dir->name) > *lx)
! 		*lx = dir->x + 24 + 8*(strlen(dir->name)+strlen(dir->link));
  
  	/*
  	 * Alle Unterdirectories zeichnen fall Directory offen
--- 256,270 ----
  		drawDir (dir_area, dir, b, b);
  	}
  
! 	if (dir->x + 24 + 8*strlen(dir->name) > *lx) 
! 	  {
!  	    if( (dir->link) != 0x0 ) {
! 	      *lx = dir->x + 24 + 8*(strlen(dir->name)+strlen(dir->link)); 
! 	    }
! 	    else {
! 	      *lx = dir->x + 24 + 8 * ( strlen(dir->name) ); 
! 	    }
! 	  }
  
  	/*
  	 * Alle Unterdirectories zeichnen fall Directory offen






Brett Person
Technical Support, Walnut Creek CDROM