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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: xbiff and DECwindows
Message-ID: <6990@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 27 Nov 90 21:20:16 GMT
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In article <2751B2FB.1014@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>xbiff notices when new mail has arrived and reverse-videos
>the mailbox window, but when I read the new mail, it doesn't undo the
>reverse video, nor does it notice new mail arriving after that.

	I have had the same problem, but only when I launch xbiff from
a menu from my window manager (twm).  If I run xbiff from the command-line
(xbiff &), or from my .xinitrc, it works correctly.

                                                        Dan

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