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- From: fouts@exacto.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher Fouts)
- Subject: Re: IRIX4.0.5 appears (!) to cause Sun Xview applications to not work
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.134614.12152@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics (Dallas, TX)
- References: <1992Aug19.043416.18952@spatial.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:46:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.043416.18952@spatial.com>, alek@spatial.com (Alek O. Komarnitsky) writes:
- |> We recently upgraded one of our Indigo's to 4.0.5 from 4.0.1. Now, when the
- |> user runs xview applications (such as mailtool, cmdtool, etc.) they come
- |> up on the Indigo, but when one does a mouse click inside this application,
- |> the entire X-server appears to hang for subsequent mouse events.
- |> Killing the client program "frees" the Server, and the mouse events
- |> are then accepted.
- |>
- |> These applications were done routinely with IRIX4.0.1.
- |> "Pure" X based applications (such as xterm and xsol) work OK, but
- |> xview applications as mentioned above cause this problem.
- |> Same behavior from both OpenWindows 2 & 3.
- |>
- |> You can duplicate this problem in <30 seconds. On a "vanilla" 4.0.5
- |> machine, do the xhost/DISPLAY stuff, and then fire up an xterm from
- |> the Sun to make sure you did everything right. After confirming that,
- |> fire up a cmdtool/mailtool/whatever and click inside the application.
- |> Click on a few other windows (nothing happens), then kill the client.
- |>
- |> I've taken a look at TFM, and would sure like to know a workaround for this.
- |> Thanx in advance - I'll summarize if enough interest and/or eat humble pie
- |> if I've missed something obvious! ;-)
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- I've seen it, too, at a customer site and filed a bug on it. The workaround
- is to use the "-fullscreendebug" option when running your Xview application.
- The report I've gotten is that this is fixed in the next "major" release which
- runs X11R5. I do not know if there will be another release before then that
- fixes this problem in our X11R4 server.
-
- |> Alek Komarnitsky 303-449-0649
- |> Software Tools Manager, Spatial Technology, Inc. 2425 55th Street, Bldg A
- |> alek@spatial.com Boulder, CO 80301-5704
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