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From: jack@cwi.nl (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X server implementation problems.
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Date: 6 Sep 90 13:46:07 GMT
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Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam
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I've implemented X on amoeba, our own distributed OS, and it works
wonderfully, but there are still two tiny problems that I can't
seem to track down. If anyone could point me in the right direction
I would be very grateful. 

1. The BW2 sun server (code based on the unix sun server as distributed)
   makes the mouse cursor disappear if a new window is opened where the
   mouse currently is. Moving the mouse will make it reappear. I assume
   this problem is somewhere in the mi stuff (since that seems to be used to
   make the cursor disappear and appear again) but I don't have a clue where to
   look.

2. The vax qvss server has a problem with twm function keys. 
   (entries like "F1" = : window : f.raise).
   Whenever you use such a function key the keyboard is assigned to
   the window you pressed the key over, and the only way to get it back
   again is iconifying or destroying the window. I have been looking at
   the KeyGrab stuff, but I'm rather lost there. Moreover, it seems
   to be a machine dependent problem, because the sun server has no
   problems.

Any help is greatly appreciated. If you post to the group, please mail
to me as well, since I will be gone for a few weeks so I'll probably
miss any answers posted to the group.
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