Bug 108582 - switchdesk writes incorrect ~/.Xclients-$HOSTAME$DISPLAY
Summary: switchdesk writes incorrect ~/.Xclients-$HOSTAME$DISPLAY
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: switchdesk
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Than Ngo
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-30 12:18 UTC by Don Himelrick
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-02-03 21:32:23 UTC
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Description Don Himelrick 2003-10-30 12:18:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
switchdesk produces a file in your home directory named

.Xclients-masta1.don:1.0

and an .Xclients file that that looks for  ~/.Xclients-$HOSTAME$DISPLAY
which on my system expands to  .Xclients-masta1.don:1


Since the file doesn't exits, it fails the  if [ -e ] and .Xclients defaults to
~/.Xclients-default, which doesn't exist either. Kaboom!

Rename Xclients-masta1.don:1.0 to Xclients-masta1.don:1 and everything works.

BTW, I did this on Alt-F8, using startx -- :1, with Alt-F7 already running an X
session. I ran switchdesk-gnome and chose "for the current display only" and
saved. When I tried regular old startx again with no X  display running, it
crashed because there was (correctly) no Xclients-masta1.don:0 file and because
(incorrectly?) there was no .Xclients-default.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
switchdesk-3.9.8-18

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. See above
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Additional info:
Comment 1 Than Ngo 2004-02-03 21:32:23 UTC 
it's fixed in 4.0.0, which is available in rawhide
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