Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!jaytee!eastnews.east!crl From: crl@sanctum.East.Sun.COM (Charles LaBrec) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Hosed xnews menus under Open Windows Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 90 04:46:36 GMT References: <1990Nov8.123120.20324@cs.utk.edu> <1990Nov9.172649@wind.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@East.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Albany, NY Lines: 21 In-reply-to: naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 10 Nov 90 01:26:49 GMT In article <1990Nov9.172649@wind.Eng.Sun.COM> naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) writes: > > Other followups to this message were referring to unrelated > problems... It sounds like you are on a GX and you have run some other > program which directly accessed the framebuffer. X11/NeWS is confused > about the state of the GX hardware registers since it assumes that it > will be the only one to leave state in the hardware. On 4.0.3, I've not seen many problems like this on a GX. However, I see it all the time on a bwtwo. I believe it happens most often after running a SunView application. Often, the pane border (the thin black line surrounding the tty subwindow) in shell/cmdtools disappears and refuses to come back even with after a redisplay or close/open of the window. I don't believe that the GFX software changes this behavior, but I'm not sure about this since some systems at my customer site have it installed, and some don't. -- Charles LaBrec Sun Professional Services Albany, NY