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From: dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan Messinger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Vanishing clients in xnews server
Message-ID: <9672@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 91 14:51:28 GMT
References: <1207@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>
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Reply-To: dan@scooter.rosemount.com (Dan Messinger)
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In article <1207@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>, mason@robots.ox.ac.uk (Ian Mason)
writes:
 
|> There seems to be a problem with our X/NeWS server. Clients like
|> cmdtools and xterms disappear sometimes when they are closed. The
|> problem is not repeatable, i.e. I don't know when it will disappear.
|> It happens under both vtwm and olwm window managers, so I suppose it's
|> the problem of the server.

I see the same thing frequently.  I thought it was because I was using the
stock twm off the X11r4 tapes, but apparently not.  I am using an IPC running
OS 4.1 and OW 2.0.  While it usually happens when I close an application,
a couple of times it has happened with I opened an application.

Dan Messinger
dan@scooter.rosemount.com