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From: toml@Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: twm problems on Ardent
Message-ID: <2830@ninja.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 13:20:58 GMT
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Co.
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[  I am having a problem with twm on an Ardent Titan II.  The first
[  time I bring up a user-defined menu, things work as expected.  The
[  overlay box is produced and filled with labels, each indicating the
[  appropriate window manager function.  The second and all subsequent
[  tries at the window produce the overlay box empty (meaning that there
[  are no little labels).  The menu will function correctly, ie. if you
[  select a ``label'' then release the button, the function is executed;
[  but, at no time is the text of the label visible.  So, you must have a
[  very good memory in order to fully use the menus. :-)
[     Now that you think you have it figured out, there are two more
[  intersting points.  The TWM window menu always works correctly: labels
[  and all.  Furthermore, if you select the ``source .twmrc'' function
[  to reload the data structures, the labels will again appear the first
[  time (as before).  Very strange...

I would be willing to bet money that your server has backing store problems.
the TwmMenu works because it is created when the mouse button is pressed.
Menus show up after a f.twmrc file because they too are rebuilt.

Try putting  "NoBackingStore" in your .twmrc file.

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Tom LaStrange

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