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From: mel@cbnewsh.att.com (mel.haas)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Inconsistent behavior: Openwin vs. X11R4
Summary: Problems with xfig under OpenWindows 2.0
Keywords: Openwin, xfig
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.144920.10564@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 13 Jan 91 14:49:20 GMT
References: <1991Jan11.151834.9803@hod.uit.no> <1991Jan13.053722.1849@emisle.uucp>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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We run vanilla MIT X (up to fix 18) and vanilla OpenWindows 2.0 on
SunOS 4.0.3e and 4.1.1 SPARCstations.  Users who must also run
SunView applications use OpenWindows, the rest MIT X (which is
faster and smoother).  We are having lots of trouble with a very
popular program 'xfig' (release 9 from expo.lcs.mit.edu).  It works
fine with MIT X, but often just dies under Open Windows with no clue
as to what happened.  And, the rubber-banding is 1/16" off SE from the
center of the mouse curser (the resulting end point is on center,
1/16" NW of the rubber-band end point).

I rebuilt 'xfig' with the Open Windows libraries with identical
problems.  Does anyone have patches to 'xfig' to avoid these problems?
Or advice on how to go about tracking them down?
 Thanks,
   Mel Haas  ,  mel_haas@att.com  or  att!hotld!mel