Re: Bug in Background Properties...

[Adam Chodorowski <archmage earthdome com>]

> > There seems to be a nasty bug in 'Background Properties'.
> > It won't open any window on my machine. It starts, reads a bit from the
> > harddrive, an just becomes silent.
> >
> > Is there any prerequisites for 'Background Properties'? Like a special
> > window-manager or something silly like that?
>
> xscreensaver & xlock... if it catches SIGPIPE, then it's probably lack
> of one of these two that's bothering it.

I don't have either of them, I think. :) It would be nice if programs
that encounter an error, and can't continue, should give an 
error-message to the user, so he/she knows what's wrong. 
Maybe that's something for the UI-GuideLines?

-- 
Adam Chodorowski (archmage@earthdome.com)