diff -purN fbdesk-1.4.1.patched/src/main.cc fbdesk-1.4.1/src/main.cc
--- fbdesk-1.4.1.patched/src/main.cc	2013-04-12 02:35:49.000000000 -0600
+++ fbdesk-1.4.1/src/main.cc	2013-04-12 02:36:37.000000000 -0600
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) try {
     // determine arguments
     for (int i=1; i<argc; ++i) {
         if (strcmp("-display", argv[i]) == 0 && // display connection
-            i + 1 < argc) {
+            i + 1 <= argc) {
             displaystr = argv[++i];
         } else if (strcmp("-rc", argv[i]) == 0 && // resource file
-                   i + 1 < argc) {
+                   i + 1 <= argc) {
             resource_filename = argv[++i];
         } if (strcmp("-v", argv[i]) == 0) {
             cout<<"FbDesk "<<FBDESK_VERSION<<" Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Henrik Kinnunen"<<endl;