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From: csd35@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: ELM under OpenWindows
Message-ID: <1119@keele.keele.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Apr 91 20:40:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.211909.8400@unixland.uucp>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <1991Apr25.211909.8400@unixland.uucp>, by bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser):
> In article <344@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> elsn4000@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Frank Elsner) writes:
>>I've problems using ELM under SUN's OpenWindows. The screen looks perfect
>>in the beginning but the menu is ill-formatted.

If you mean that the lines wrap at the end then you have discovered yet
another Shelltool bug.

> Elm works fine in either a SHELLTOOL or XTERM window.  Don't use COMMAND
> TOOL though.  Also make sure your TERM environment variable is set correctly

I run elm in a shelltool without altering the TERM variable at all.  The
bug is that shelltool doesn't set its window size until AFTER it has started
its process.  So shelltool -c elm doesn't work.  I have a shell script
that sleeps for 3 seconds before starting elm and since I did that I have
no problems unless the X server is slow enough for elm to get going before
the window appears.  Here for you to gasp an appreciate is the
aforementioned shell script.  I make no copyright claims to it because
its too darn short.


#!/bin/sh
sleep 3
elm
sleep 3


The sleep 3 at the end is so that I get to see the 'Hey' message before
the window gets zapped.
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