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4. _B_u_g__F_i_x_e_s
The following ddddeeeesssskkkkttttoooopppp____eeeeooooeeee bugs have been fixed since IRIX
6.4:
+o With the WorldView Japanese product installed, changing
the icon scale in an overview will no longer cause the
file manager to crash. (Bug 593798)
+o Searchbook has a new toggle that the user can check to
make searches not follow symbolic links. This can help
searchbook to avoid crashing when it encounters self-
referential symbolic links that would otherwise cause
searchbook to loop infinitely. (Bug 615851)
+o The file manager (ffffmmmm) responds properly to down NFS
mounts without hanging. This allows other fm windows
to continue to update and respond to user actions when
an fm window on a downed NFS server cannot. (Bug
208713)
+o If both file manager (ffffmmmm) and imdmonitor were running
at the same time when the file alteration monitor (ffffaaaammmm)
crashed, then imdmonitor used to go into a tight loop
that would consume CPU resources. This has been fixed.
(Bug 493139)
+o To improve default system security, SGI systems now
ship with remote display disabled. After upgrading to
IRIX 6.5, desktop users who want to be able to run an
application on a remote system but display the
application's windows on the local screen should select
Desktop > Customize > Desktop from the toolchest and
check the Enable Remote Display toggle. For more
information, see the _d_e_s_k_t_o_p(_1) and _d_i_s_a_b_l_e_X_h_o_s_t(_1) man
pages. (Bug 580487)
+o To give the user more secure control over their
display, the System > Utilities > Disable Remote
Display option disables remote display for each and
every host that currently has remote display enabled.
The Desktop > Customize > Desktop panel's Enable Remote
Display toggle will do the same when it is unchecked.
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(Bugs 532479, 535706, 526454)
+o The layout of icons in desktop views is more reliable
(ex., the scroll position is now preserved, and the
LEGEND description appears as as the last field in View
As List). This includes fm windows and iconcatalog
pages. Also the menus have been reorganized. (Bugs
458021, 492298, 459787, 489159, 446241)
+o In icon catalog, it was possible to have the icons
become tiny and illegible after changing the personal
or system language (LANG). This has been fixed. (Bug
428478)
+o Holding the Ctrl key while dragging a file icon from an
fm window to another fm window or to the desktop
background will create a copy of the file. (Bug 487429)
+o The /_v_a_r/_X_1_1/_x_d_m/_X_s_e_s_s_i_o_n._d_t script now displays
messages in the language specified by LC_MESSAGES as
returned by the _l_o_c_a_l_e(_1) command. Also, if the user
has their own ._x_s_e_s_s_i_o_n file, it will be executed in
the language specified by the LANG environment
variable. (Bugs 459669, 463495, 490851)
+o A Desks Overview crash has been fixed. The application
is now also run-once, meaning that attempts to run it a
second time while it is already running will have the
effect of deiconifying the _o_v(_1) window and popping it
to the top. The ----nnnneeeewwww option can be used to create a
new instance. (Bugs 495469, 564691)
+o If using the Desktop > Access Files > By Remote Login
panel and the remote system hangs, the Access Desktop
panel now does not itself hang so its "Connecting..."
dialog box can be cancelled. (Bug 542776)
+o The Desktop > Customize > Utilities panel now looks for
the Emacs text editor in /_u_s_r/_g_n_u/_b_i_n/_e_m_a_c_s instead of
in /_u_s_r/_f_r_e_e_w_a_r_e/_b_i_n/_e_m_a_c_s. (Bug 513147)
+o The Desktop > Customize > Iconviews panel settings no
longer affect the iconcatalog. (Bug 523945)
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+o Webjumper icons can be printed. (Bug 368304)
+o The sparkly visual launcheffect will not display if the
default visual is in the overlays and there is no
visual on top of that (ex., when running X Windows in
the overlay planes). (Bug 529473)
+o The Desktop > Customize > Sounds panel would crash if
the user double-clicked the Startup & Shutdown Tunes
toggle. This has been fixed. (Bug 510401)
+o When upgrading to IRIX 6.5, spurious output from
iconcatalog exitops will no longer appear in the
console. (Bugs 559001, 398805)
Note: For information about bug fixes made in previous
releases, see the appropriate release's release notes.