rxvt-1.1

[Holger Burde]

Hi

I just got rxvt-1.1.tar.z from sunsite. It seems that the zip-file is damaged !!
$ gzip -d rxvt*.z leads to : invalid compressed data--crc error .
Was someone able to unpack this file ? (perhaps the 'z' extension is misleading here
and the file was compressed using some other compressions utility ??).

*(h.b.)

[John P. Norris]

Yes. the file seems corrupted enough, I mailed the author, so
hopefully new version will appear soonish.

//John Norris

-Who ate my fish?

--

//Zonni

[Richard Moore]

I had the same problem with rxvt*.z from sunsite.

[Robert Nation]

Yes, the package was corrupted. I have been trying to upload
another version to sunsite, but have been unsuccessful.

I have uploaded rxvt-1.1c.tar.z to tsx-11.mit.edu. Hopefully, this
version is not corrupt. Also included is a pre-release of fvwm, a
minimum memory useage virtual window manager.

rxvt-1.1c.tar.z will not be accessible at tsx-11.mit.edu until the
site manager moves it to a new location.

[Robert Nation]

OK, a good version of rxvt-1.1 is available on sunsite now.
in /Incoming, look for rxvt-1.1c.tar.z. Don't take any other versions.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I ftp'd the file in ASCII mode, which
has always worked before, but no longer works.

To make up for the problems, the new version includes fvwm-0.5, a
pre-release of my low-memory requirements virtual, 3-D look window
manager.

As an indication of the value of conserving memory when using X, I
made some measurements:
The stock version of X11, with linux 0.99.9, 3 gettys:
I am about 400 kbytes into swap (with 4.25 Mbytes ram, xmono).
After using rxvt, ksh, fvwm, etc,
I have about 1.1 Mbytes free memory.

starting X, stock version of everything, takes 23 seconds, with
modified low-memory versions, it takes 13 seconds.

A kernel rebuild, with stock versions, take 3617 seconds, with
low-memory versions, 3070 seconds. That's 15 percent faster in an
application where you might expect to see little difference, since the
window manager, shells, etc probably get swapped out most of the
time.

Rob Nation
(nat...@rocket.sanders.lockheed.com)

[Robert Nation]

Oops, there's a kind of big bug in fvwm that is included in rxvt-1.1c.
Heres the patch, which applies to events.c
1157,1159c1157,1163
< ExecuteFunction(RootFunction, Action, Event.xany.window,
< Tmp_win, &Event, Context,
< ActiveItem->val1,ActiveItem->val2);
---
> if(ActiveItem)
> ExecuteFunction(RootFunction, Action, Event.xany.window,
> Tmp_win, &Event, Context,
> ActiveItem->val1,ActiveItem->val2);
> else
> ExecuteFunction(RootFunction, Action, Event.xany.window,
> Tmp_win, &Event, Context,0,0);

Make sure you apply it if you try fvwm.