Bug 526 – misplaced AnotherLevel quotation mark kills mail signal

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Bug 526 - misplaced AnotherLevel quotation mark kills mail signal

Summary:	misplaced AnotherLevel quotation mark kills mail signal

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	fvwm2 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1998-12-18 19:09 EST by Joe Harrington
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1998-12-22 16:02:58 EST
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Description Joe Harrington 1998-12-18 19:09:49 EST

In /etc/X11/AnotherLevel/fvwm2rc.defines.m4, the line:
define(`MAIL_SPOOL_DIR',`/var/spool/mail/'`'USER)
should be:
define(`MAIL_SPOOL_DIR',`/var/spool/mail/'`USER')

The result of the current code, which has persisted since
RH5.0 at least, is that the little envelope that should
appear at the far right edge of the taskbar when you have
mail never appears.

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1998-12-22 16:02:59 EST

Thi s is not a bug. It needs to be entered as it is to work
properly.Basically what happens is USER is replaced with whatever the
user name is that started the windowmanager, thus the need for the
single quotes to be positioned the way they are. If you enter it the
way you have it some functionality is lost.

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