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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X.V11R2 xmh problems
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Date: 26 Apr 88 06:09:24 GMT
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You have to define a geometry of sufficient size when you
start it up or else it won't ever work.  This is a serious
bug in the code (among many).  I use 650x800 and that works fine.

Problems I have yet to track down (if anybody has done this
already, I'd appreciate diffs) on my Sun 3/50 running SunOS 3.4:

-- attempts to create new folders dumps core and exits
-- attempts to execute a "pick" dumps core and exits
-- the -flag option doesn't work....mail arrives and the icon
   never changes state
-- it sometimes gets confused about what files are present and
   it exits, usually right after trying to do a "commit changes"
-- sometimes text entry in the "compose message" window doesn't
   work....something gets confused and xmh and all child windows
   accept nothing other than mouse clicks, requiring a quit
   and restart of xmh to clear the condition.

-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf