Grabbing window props for matching is broken

[Øyvind Stegard]

When trying to grab title of a window for matching, the following error occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ccm/Widgets.py", line 1108, in grab_value
    value += "%c" % int(hex, 16)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 16: '"Bugs : \xe2\x80\x9ccompizconfig-settings-manager\xe2\x80\x9d package : Ubuntu - Mozilla Firefox"'

Looking at ccm/Widgets.py, it appears that it assumes xprop output of UTF-8 strings is always in hex char list format. This is not true for the xprop that comes with Ubuntu 12.04 at least. In an UTF-8 locale, it will format UTF-8 string props as quoted strings by default.

Also, aside from not being a very useful feature, grabbing of window ID is not working, and the cause looks like a simple bug in ccm/Widgets.py as well.

Attaching a minimal patch for compizconfig-settings-manager 0.9.5.92. It forces the format of _WM_NET_NAME to hex char list in xprop output, like the Python code parsing it expects. The patch also alters prefix "id" to "xid" in the same method, so window ID grab can be triggered.

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[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.