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From: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: No (!) twm iconify bug
Keywords: twm
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.222843.116742@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
Date: 23 Apr 91 22:28:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.205302.138376@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
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Reply-To: schittel@geo.Uni-Koeln.DE (Christoph Schittel)
Organization: Institut f. Geophysik, Uni Koeln
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I wrote:
  
> I just found a small twm (X11R4pl18) bug:
> 
> from twm man-page:
> 
>      Zoom [ count ]
>              This variable  indicates  that  outlines  suggesting
>              movement of a window to and from its iconified state
>                                   ^^^         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>              should be displayed whenever a window  is  iconified
>                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>              or  deiconified.  The optional count argument speci-
>              fies the  number  of  outlines  to  be  drawn.   The
>              default count is 8.
> 
> I can't see any outlines when iconifying. I tried large
> numbers (> 100) for count to see the effect. Deiconifying
> is fine.
> 
> Is this a known bug? Patches available??
> 
> --- Christoph 
>  

I was wrong when I thought it is a twm bug. The bug is SunOS's
4.1.1 C-compiler (no flames please!). Twm works fine if 
compiled with no optimisation or -O1 and (of course) with 
gcc.

Sorry for wasting bandwidth.

--- Christoph




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