usually $HOME is set when fluxbox runs. in some rare scenarios (eg., fuzzying
binaries to detect bugs) one could launch fluxbox by using 'env -i' and thus
eliminating $HOME from the environment. to prevent crashes fluxbox uses now
'getpwuid()' when $HOME is not set to detect the home folder.
The changes made in b178bed60b used the wrong
variable to set the default state of '--enable-randr' in configure.in, that is fixed now. I
also removed '--enable-randr12': If support for the Xrandr-extension is
available at compile time we set HAVE_RANDR; if there is also support for
Xrandr-1.2 (or higher), we also set HAVE_RANDR1_2 automatically.
Other changes:
* cleaned out public interface of 'class Fluxbox'
* added 'RANDR' to output of 'fluxbox -info'
* reduced duplicated auto-code
* renamed '--enable-newwmspec' to '--enable-ewmh'
* don't compile 'Slit'-code when '--disable-slit'
* use AS_IF() in configure.in
* use AS_HELP_STRING() instead of obsolete AC_HELP_STRING in configure.in
* removed redundant calls to 'imlib2-config' to fill in $IMLIB2_CFLAGS
and $IMLIB2_LIBS, AC_PATH_GENERIC() does that out of the box already
otherwise a race condition might appear between copying the default
config files to .fluxbox/ and executing 'fluxbox-update_configs'. under
macosx this lead to 'fluxbox hangs'.
by using FbCommands::ExecureCmd() we run 'fluxbox-update_configs' in
the bacground while booting a new fluxbox instance already. 'system()'
waits until 'fluxbox-update_configs' is done and then gives the control
back to fluxbox.
before bringing up the first instance of Fluxbox we prepare the directory
and the files it needs. if the config version of exiting files is lower
than what we expect, we upgrade the config files. after that we bring
up Fluxbox.
the old way was problematic because setupConfigFiles() calls
'fluxbox-update_configs' which does its job in the background while
fluxbox continues to boot. 'fluxbox-update_configs' sends a USR2 signal
to the booting fluxbox (it might even be finished, no one knows) which
triggers 'load_rc()' which triggered 'setupConfigFiles()' again which
might trigger 'fluxbox-update_configs' again (on my machine
'fluxbox-update_configs' was called 3 times and left a pretty crippled
'keys' file when it was done).
bootstrapping before bringing up fluxbox resolves the issue. as a bonus:
no need to send USR2 to fluxbox to reload the config file because fluxbox
has not even tried to read it yet.
to quote from 'man putenv':
The string pointed to by string becomes part of the environment,
so altering the string changes the environment.
so, using putenv like
{
std::string foo("FOO=bar");
putenv(foo.c_str());
}
is wrong and leads to a potentially corrupted environment. valgrind
complaint correctly.
FbTk::App seems to be the appropriate place to hold '::seten()'
because it alters the environment of the application.
