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From: earle@POSEUR.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xmh vs. xdm?
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Date: 30 Nov 89 07:31:53 GMT
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This may sound bizarre, but ever since I started using `xdm', `xmh' acts
like it's gotten a lobotomy.  Most of the time it comes up and claims my
inbox folder is completely empty (!!!).  Every once in a while it comes
up properly (with a `rescanning inbox' pop-up), but even then, when new
mail comes in, hitting `Incorporate new mail' returns immediately (!!!),
and hitting `Rescan folder' briefly brings up an empty (!) pop-up, which
goes away almost immediately.  All of the normal MH commands still work
just fine (as is expected), so it's xmh that is getting fry-brained.

The only thing I could think of is that now that I'm using `xdm', my ~/.login
file never gets read by anything, but there's nothing that gets tossed into
the environment in ~/.login that xmh/MH would care about (or so it seems).

Any ideas?!?

	- Greg Earle
	  Sun Microsystems, Inc. - JPL on-site Software Support
	  earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV	(Direct)	...!sun!poseur!earle
	  earle@Sun.COM			(Indirect)	...!sun!earle

Disclaimer: I have enough problems with my employer as it is without you
	    thinking that I speak for them in any way, shape or form.  So don't.