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From: morreale@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm mouse button bindings problem
Keywords: button 3 aborts xterm
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Date: 17 Oct 89 22:59:38 GMT
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Reply-To: morreale@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Peter Morreale)
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Hi,
I'm experiencing some flakyness with "xterm"'s button bindings. I've
narrowed down the situation as best I can.

What happens is when I hit button 3 in the window, the window closes and
aborts.  (ie. the xterm is terminated)  

some notes about this.....

   1) If I hit button 1 *first*, then button three reacts as
      documented.  That is to say, the block of text up/down to the mouse
      cursor is highlighted.   Invariably, this always works. (ha!)

   2) If I first hit button three, (with the mouse cursor in the window
      for several seconds) invariably, the xterm is terminated.

   3) It appears to be *somewhat* random, in the last 15 or so "tests",
      13 aborted the window.

   4) I have the stderr directed to a file.  the file says: "xterm:
      Broken pipe".  (or something to that effect)


Note that for a long time I had twm bind button three to f.iconify in
the window.  I just recently acquired some other X stuff which uses
button three, so I have now unbound button three.

Addendum....
I just rebooted X and cannot get the error to repeat.  Note that in the
past I had "rebooted" twm using f.twm (when I had changed the button
bindings).


Has anyone else had this problem? If so, can you suggest some patches?
I have a multitude of options set with with .Xresources and .twmrc.
(otherwise I would include the sources)

Oh Yeah, Sun 3-60M, SunOS release 4.0, X11R3, twm 1.2(?)

Please email, I don't read this group any more.  (too many postings, I 
was one of those fools that wanted to split to two groups) :-)

Thanx,
-PWM
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