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- From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg)
- Subject: Re: X386 (SLS) + X8514: olvwm and xmodmap problems
- Message-ID: <lmfken.726479381@bluese2>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
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- Organization: Oy LM Ericsson Ab, Jorvas, Finland
- References: <w991wB1w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:49:41 GMT
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- kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
-
- >I'm having a few problems with the above-mentioned combination (that's the
- >X386 from SLS 0.99 plus x8514new plus xview3L2 plus olvwm).
-
- >1) olvwm hangs the system after a few events. I can reliably reproduce it
- >by going into the Properties editor and popping up the menu of property
- >groups: on about the sixth time the pop-up menu only draws partially, and
- >the system hangs. Other olvwm-related actions also cause it; however,
- >actions on a client such as xterm do not. olwm from xview3L2 works fine,
- >although it has the zombie process bug described by other posters. twm also
- >works (but it's UGLY! :-) I'm not running out of memory; I checked.
- >BTW, this is the olvwm built from the .a file (olvwmbin_gcc2.2.2.T.Z); the
- >olvwm binary from olvwmbin dumps core when invoked.
-
- I have a working olvwm. I'm considering adding it to xview3L3, as many
- people seem to have problems with the olvwm on tsx-11. The one I have
- is the latest patchlevel (ie. 3), I believe the one on tsx is only on
- patchlevel 2.
-
- --
- Kenneth Osterberg lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se or lmfken@bluese1.ericsson.fi
-