Re: Path to 0.92.1

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jaqque (at) sbih (dot) org>]

Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> 
> > Some of the bugs I am aware of are compiling on 64 bit, and the keyboard
> > freezing every so often. 
> 
> Ah, I started to get a frozen keyboard about two weeks ago, it has never
> happened before. I thought it was a kernel regression, but nobody else
> was seeing it.

As I left WM running a very long time, I would see it but I was unable
to idetofy it as a WM bug.

> Everything else was ok, and my laptop did not hang. I could even switch desktops
> by using the mouse.
> 
> This keyboard issue started to happen when I was using the cpu heavily, as
> I started to use the application to find big Mersenne prime numbers from
> www.mersenne.org.
> 
> Is this bug already solved in some distro that you know of?

The Debian Testing and Unstable branches have the fix applied.

> There is patch by Pedro Gimeno which solves a periodic bug:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git?a=commit;h=c91bb1ba1360006c568db37438779e525868cf17
> 
> And a workaround patch by the Window Maker maintainer of Mandriva:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git?a=commit;h=e4800e84d0604ee8eb2427601c1e28e31a584417
> 
> Maybe this one too, a bug which I hit some time ago:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/wmaker-crm.git?a=commit;h=ee28b0257ab5d61a2ba8fb9108e74447d7c9fde9

Excellent! I will look into these.

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