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

[Henrik Sandklef]

> 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"
You are right.

>> > # 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 thought i hit a "problem" because i used an probably outdated tool on a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 outdated/unpopular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.
WIll add a comment that this is nothing to worry about.

> .... popular...
OK, Xnee is not the most widespread tool. Perhaps not even the second
largest. Thats is not the goal of Xnee.

> - spending some time to find a binary package at all ?
I am developing rpms (beta version can be found at www.sandklef.com/xnee/
... beta is the word)



>
>  > 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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