[Xnee-devel] Re: [Bug-xnee] Bug ?

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Hello Henrik,

i`m sorry that you felt offended by my mail - but that wasn`t my intention
to offend you or anybody else or critizise xnee.

i found that i had a problem running xnee and i would like to get some help
in solving that problem.

> So why do you bring this up here. And you already have solved it!
what`s the problem bringing that here again? i just tell, what i did and i
solved that even without the FAQ. Why is it a problem that i mention it?
btw: perhaps a hint in the error-message could be helpful to users !?
something like "RECORD extension missing - please add appropriate option to
your X-Server configuration"

> > # xnee --record -o exmaple3.xnr --device-event-range 5-6 --time 5
> --loops 20
> > Error recevied.... on display=134651704
> > Error recevied.... on display=134651704
> This has been reported eariler. Don't do anything. Your recording hasn't
> failed.
sorry - but that message made me think the tool didn`t work. i just moved
the mouse a little bit and i got that error message very quickly and the
tool seemed to have stopped working. since traffic was so low on the ML i
thought i hit a "problem" because i used an probably outdated tool on a
recent X-server - and probably others didn`t try it before. it happened
quite often in my admin life that i hit a problem with an outdated/unpopular
tool on recent linux distributions. 

> > Unfortunately xnee doesn`t seem to be very popular - so problably not
> many people use it actually -
> I assume you base this on something. What? Would be nice to know.
- references ?
- googling (4500 hits)? (i use tools which give much more hits on google -
and i don`t think even they cannot be called "popular") 
- not finding it as a package in the disto`s i use ?
- spending some time to find a binary package at all ?
- the number of postings per month on the mailinglists ?

> Do you say this to chear us up?
why should i do that ?
you have written a tool for macro recording and it didn`t seem to work for
me. i searched the website and the mailinglist and it seemed, that there
wasn`t much traffic on the mailinglist. so i thought: oh - maybe it`s a
little bit outdated and it doesn`t seem to be very popular. and since there
doesn`t seem to be a users mailinglist i send a mail to the bug and the
devel mailinglist in the hope, to get some help from some experts.

> > regards
> do you mean that?
yes i meant that :)

> > roland
> with email: address@hidden 
> It is always nice to know who you are dealing with. 
i`m roland and i`m a sysadmin and i don`t like posting to public
mailinglists with my full name :)  i like to stay anonymous because i don`t
like it that people can find information about my person 10 years later just
by entering my name into a search engine. unfortunately my surname isn`t
"smith" or similar.

so - now let`s be nice again - it was never be my intention to offend you or
anybody else. you did a great job developing such a tool, the unix world
really lacks. macro-recorders on windows are quite popular - on unix the
only one i found at all is: xnee  (btw: are there others ?)
maybe i wrote my mail a little bit too offensive, and you read that mail in 
 a moment,where you where just too receptive for feeling offended.

regards (yes! :)

roland



 > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 16:31, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi !
> > I want to use xnee on my SuSE 9.1 (Xfree 4.3).
> > The first problem I hit, was that extension "RECORD" was missing, but I
> > added "record" in XF86Config - that seemed to work - xdpyinfo showed,
> that
> > "RECORD" extension is available now.
> This is mentioned in the FAQ:
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/xnee/www/manual/xnee.html#SEC116
> So why do you bring this up here. And you already have solved it!
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately I get the following error very quickly, after a start
> moving
> > the mouse:
> > 
> > # xnee --record -o exmaple3.xnr --device-event-range 5-6 --time 5
> --loops 20
> > Error recevied.... on display=134651704
> > Error recevied.... on display=134651704
> > 
> > What does that mean or what can I do ?
> This has been reported eariler. Don't do anything. Your recording hasn't
> failed.
> 
> 
> > Unfortunately xnee doesn`t seem to be very popular - so problably not
> many
> > people use it actually -
> I assume you base this on something. What? Would be nice to know.
> Do you say this to chear us up?
> 
> >  i even had problems finding a binary distribution,
> You "even had problems.......". What do you mean???? You are more than
> welcome to provide binaries. 
> 
> > because i had problems compiling it.
> OK, your email doesn't give us very much information on what fails.
> What went wrong.... Compiling? Linking? 
> What Xnee version? 
> What compiler/version? 
> What does the compiler/linker say?
> If you do want the problem(s) to be solved I think you will have a
> better chance if you give us information about the faults.
> 
> > regards
> do you mean that?
> 
> > roland
> with email: address@hidden 
> It is always nice to know who you are dealing with. 
> 
> /h
> 
> 
> 

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