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From: alex@wolf.umbc.edu (Alex Crain)
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Subject: Re: DECWindows and twm
Keywords: DECwindows X twm pmax DECstation
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Date: 21 Jul 89 19:45:27 GMT
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		[twm + DECWindows on a PMAX]

>					 The symptoms are kind of hard to
>describe, but I will try.  It is like the Session manager's window becomes
>part of the background.  If I move the Session manager window it moves
>away, but a copy remains where it used to be.  This copy cannot be
>selected, moved, or iconified.  This happens with both twm and awm.

	I'm running a PMAX with the Xmfb server and the MIT clients. There 
appears to be a bug in the server that causes it to "lose" pixmaps, which
then float on the display, altough you can't touch them. The biggest
hassle with this is that these pixmap images are on the surface of the display,
and thus obscure other images.

	My favorite (well, not really) is when the clock image gets lost. THe
result is that the clock gets obscured by an old pixmap, so time stands still.
Of course, since the covering image looks exactly like xclock, you don't
find out until you realize that it's been 3:15 for the last 4 hours :-).

#################################		:alex.
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