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From: steve@MATHS.WARWICK.AC.UK (Steve Rumsby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Windows vanishing from Sun3/50
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Date: 16 Jan 89 09:02:14 GMT
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This sounds remarkably familiar! Reported to Sun UK on October 4th
according to my list. The call is still open. Our windows only seemed to
disappear after they had been idle for a while (15 mins or so, I think).
This happened not only to shelltool/cmdtool windows but even to clocktool!
Lockscreen suffers from this also (which makes it a little ineffective :-)

A "workaround" that seems to "work" is to recompile the offending tools
with -Bstatic. You have the sources to these even if you are a binary
site. Except that a quick "ls" doesn't reveal the source to lockscreen.

	Hope this helps,
	Steve.

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