Weird problem with wbar

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

I have switched back to running wbar on several of my desktops and have 
run into a strange problem. Because it happened under openbox the first 
time I noticed it, I posted the problem on that list but so far nobody 
has come up with any ideas. so I thought I try here.

I am running Debian Sid with openbox, Icewm and Mate.

Whenever I try to use wbar-config to change some of wbars parameters, 
then hit reload, wbar-config garbles the second line of the config file 
($HOME/.wbar). Wbar then reloads but gets weird placement on the screen
because of the line being garbled.

This is an example of what it does:


frank@frank-debian:~$ cat ./.wbar
i: /usr/share/pixmaps/wbar/dock.png
c:
t: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans/10

i: /home/frank/.icons/Win2-7/apps/firefox-default.png
c: firefox
t: Firefox

This time it left out the second line entirely but it usually replaces 
the first 5 or 10 characters with garbage.
Like this:

frank@frank-debian:~$ cat ./.wbar
i: /home/frank/.icons/Win2-7/apps/firefox-default.png
c: �
    �
t: /10

i: /home/frank/.icons/Vista/apps/32x32/mail_generic.png
c: thunderbird
t: Thunderbird


The same version of wbar and wbar-config runs on my other
partition of Fedora 22 without this problem.

I have re-installed everything with no change.

I have filed a bug report, but I suspect it's not a bug but
something strange with this Debian installation.
I suppose I could just forget about wbar-config, and modify the file
by hand...but I am getting a little OCD over it!

Anybody have any ideas?