Some Issues i had while trying this on one of my notebooks

[omegabr99]

Sorry if this isnt enough but i dont have time rn

1 - the about buttom causes an crash it gives an bad window error 2- tiles a broken trying to apply one causes an crash 3 - menu editor causes an crash aswell

[seeseemelk]

Which programs are you trying to run exactly?

[omegabr99]

Which programs are you trying to run exactly?

the panel with windowmaker e16 and fvwm2

[seeseemelk]

I haven't been able to properly replicate the crashes yet, but I've noticed that in panel many of the graphics are broken. This is caused by a bug in imlib 1.9.4. However, Arch Linux does ship imlib 1.9.15, but with gdk_imlib.h disabled which means gnome core won't build. A temporary workaround is to download Arch's PKGBUILD for imlib and modifying it so that gdk_imlib.h is not disabled.

$ yay -G imlib
$ cd imlib
$ vim PKGBUILD

Within the PKGBUILD file you'll want to remove the following line:

patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/imlib-gtk.patch"

Then build and install

$ makepkg -i

Can you see if it still crashes with a patched imlib?

[omegabr99]

I haven't been able to properly replicate the crashes yet, but I've noticed that in panel many of the graphics are broken. This is caused by a bug in imlib 1.9.4. However, Arch Linux does ship imlib 1.9.15, but with gdk_imlib.h disabled which means gnome core won't build. A temporary workaround is to download Arch's PKGBUILD for imlib and modifying it so that gdk_imlib.h is not disabled.

$ yay -G imlib
$ cd imlib
$ vim PKGBUILD

Within the PKGBUILD file you'll want to remove the following line:

patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/imlib-gtk.patch"

Then build and install

$ makepkg -i

Can you see if it still crashes with a patched imlib?

sorry for taking long to awnser but i will try

[omegabr99]

`misc.c: In function ‘gdk_imlib_set_color_map’: misc.c:69:3: error: unknown type name ‘GdkWindowPrivate’; did you mean ‘GdkWindowState’? 69 | GdkWindowPrivate private; | ^~~~ | GdkWindowState misc.c:79:14: error: ‘GdkWindowPrivate’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘GdkWindowState’? 79 | private = (GdkWindowPrivate ) & gdk_root_parent; | ^~~~ | GdkWindowState misc.c:79:14: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in misc.c:79:32: error: expected expression before ‘)’ token 79 | private = (GdkWindowPrivate *) & gdk_root_parent; | ^ misc.c:84:47: error: request for member ‘xwindow’ in something not a structure or union 84 | cm = XCreateColormap(id->x.disp, private->xwindow, | ^~ misc.c:94:56: error: request for member ‘xwindow’ in something not a structure or union 94 | id->x.base_window = XCreateWindow(id->x.disp, private->xwindow, | ^~ make[2]: *** [Makefile:698: misc.lo] Erro 1 make[2]: Saindo do diretório '/home/omegabr/imlib/src/imlib-1.9.15/gdk_imlib'

make[1]: *** [Makefile:591: all-recursive] Erro 1 make[1]: Saindo do diretório '/home/omegabr/imlib/src/imlib-1.9.15'

make: *** [Makefile:395: all] Erro 2`

[seeseemelk]

Can you run it with GDB to see where it crashes and post the stack trace here? I've noticed that gedit crashes because it tries to load a font that doesn't exist, resulting in a null dereference. panel seems to be working fine for me, so it might be a similar issue.

[seeseemelk]

Aight, I've been able to play around with it and it does indeed crash quite often. In fact, it always seems to crash when I select a second menu item. I've been able to run it through gdb, and it seems to crash at some gnome_dentry_set... function, but I haven't yet been able to fix it.

Thanks for reporting this though! It's fun to know that I'm not the only one who's interested in running ancient open source 90s-looking software!

[omegabr99]

Aight, I've been able to play around with it and it does indeed crash quite often. In fact, it always seems to crash when I select a second menu item. I've been able to run it through gdb, and it seems to crash at some gnome_dentry_set... function, but I haven't yet been able to fix it.

Thanks for reporting this though! It's fun to know that I'm not the only one who's interested in running ancient open source 90s-looking software!

no problem i cant wait to use this again

[seeseemelk]

I've attempted to create a fix in the fix/gmenu-crash branch (bddf5a57e76325c79de9a27d5349c517341e28b5), but I don't think it really solves the underlying issue. In fact, if I select an icon for a program I still get a crash, and I get warnings of incorrect reference counts when running from a terminal. This will need more investigating, but it's not a pretty - or modern - codebase to try and fix. And to top it off, it's near impossible to find any documentation for it given that it's 22 year old software.

[seeseemelk]

This should be now be properly fixed by 7aaa26c92cb9d8efe6a105902969d3a55f1dd618. I can no longer get it to crash. If it isn't fixed for you, feel free to reopen this issue.