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From: andrews@sdipl.oz (Andrew Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: twm seems to interfere with xterm
Summary: same problem on different machine
Keywords: twm, xterm
Message-ID: <161@sdipl.oz>
Date: 6 Oct 89 06:05:57 GMT
References: <595@halley.UUCP> <1124@celit.fps.com>
Reply-To: andrews@sdipl.sdi.oz.au (Andrew Schonberger)
Organization: Software Developments Int'l, NSW, Australia
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In article <1124@celit.fps.com> dave@fps.com (Dave Smith) writes:
 >In article <595@halley.UUCP> halley!tjd@cs.utexas.edu writes:
 > >I'm trying to run xterm when using twm.  As soon as twm gets going and
 > >reparents the xterm, keypresses don't make it to xterm anymore.  Button
 > >presses (ctl mouse 1 etc) all work fine.  Mouse movements cause the
 > >appropriate focus change, the title bar icons work, just no characters
 > >that are typed make their way to xterm.

That's exactly what happens on my machine. I suspect some version mismatch,
or out of date software. I'm runnig X11.R2 on an Apollo DN3500. My 'twm' is
from the uunet archive (presumably R3), but I did not apply the patches yet.
 
 >This sounds as if you have function keys defined in your .twmrc (eg the Sun
 >L5 for expose, L7 for close) which do not exist on your X terminal.  Get rid
 >of the definitions for these (or change them to F keys) in the .twmrc and
 >try it.

I tried it but did not help. When given acces to a stderr, twm told me:
         twm: unknown key name "ClearLine"
There is really no such key on my terminal, so I deleted any reference
to ClearLine from .twmrc. It still doesn't work, even after focus/defocus.

Besides making xterm deaf and blind, my twm dies by 'Segmentation error'
when I want to deiconify some windows, or bring up a new one. When I move
a window, the new position is not repainted properly. 

Is there a patched twm available on some archive ? 
Did anyone run twm succesfully with R2 ?

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