Bug 38345 - xprop -set with 'u8' format yields "xprop: error: Bad format: u8."
Summary: xprop -set with 'u8' format yields "xprop: error: Bad format: u8."
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: App/xprop (show other bugs)
Version: 7.6 (2010.12)
Hardware: All All
: medium major
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
URL:
Whiteboard: 2011BRB_Reviewed
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-15 05:51 UTC by Shlomi Fish
Modified: 2018-06-17 19:36 UTC (History)
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Description Shlomi Fish 2011-06-15 05:51:47 UTC 
Observe:

<<<
shlomif:~$ xprop -root -f '_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES' u8 -set '_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES' '"foo"' 
xprop: error: Bad format: u8.
>>>

According to the man page, it should work. Apparently, there's a 'u' missing from the «switch (format_char) {» in Set_Property().

Please fix it.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish
Comment 1 Shlomi Fish 2011-06-15 06:05:54 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Observe:
> 
> <<<
> shlomif:~$ xprop -root -f '_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES' u8 -set '_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES'
> '"foo"' 
> xprop: error: Bad format: u8.
> >>>
> 
> According to the man page, it should work. Apparently, there's a 'u' missing
> from the «switch (format_char) {» in Set_Property().
> 
> Please fix it.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Shlomi Fish

I'm sorry, what I tried is:

<<<
$ xprop -root -f '_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES' 8u -set '_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES' '"foo"' 
xprop: error: bad format character: u
>>>
Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-06 09:43:40 UTC 
You seem to know what the fix is.  Please email a patch to xorg-devel for 
review.
Comment 3 Shlomi Fish 2011-10-06 11:31:11 UTC 
Hi,

(In reply to comment #2)
> You seem to know what the fix is.  Please email a patch to xorg-devel for 
> review.

well, I believe I tried fixing the problem myself, but it didn't work too well, and I don't know if my fix is the proper way to do it. I also ended up doing what I had in mind in a different way, without using xprop. So I guess I won't be able to submit a patch.
Comment 4 Alkis Georgopoulos 2015-06-09 09:33:31 UTC 
This bug was fixed in http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop/commit/?id=0d069c0edae83f70ac10fab1a3c04d8197e277c4

And since this bug report came up first in google, I'm mentioning it so that it's easier for future readers to locate that commit...
Comment 5 Shlomi Fish 2015-06-09 10:03:16 UTC 
(In reply to Alkis Georgopoulos from comment #4)
> This bug was fixed in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xprop/commit/
> ?id=0d069c0edae83f70ac10fab1a3c04d8197e277c4
> 
> And since this bug report came up first in google, I'm mentioning it so that
> it's easier for future readers to locate that commit...

Thanks for fixing it!

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