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From: dce@stan.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: awm/xterm problem
Message-ID: <519@salgado.stan.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 16:45:56 GMT
References: <198@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: dce@salgado.UUCP (David Elliott)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Colorado
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In article <198@ncr-fc.FtCollins.NCR.COM> dona@ncr-fc.UUCP (Don Allingham) writes:
>
>Has anyone experienced a problem with xterm while running under awm?  Most of
>the time that I start up an xterm window, the first line of text sent to the
>window appears vertically in column 1.  After the first line, everything else
>is ok.  I am running a SUN 3/60 with SunOS 4.0.1, with awm patchlevel 8
>(X11r3).  This problem does not occur when I run uwm.  

This is a known problem.  It turns out that there is a short period of
time between the time that the xterm starts and the time that it knows
how large the window is, and during this time, the size is 1x1.  This
happens in awm due to the fact that it "reparents" the windows, and
since uwm doesn't do this, it doesn't have the problem.

You can stop it from showing up in csh windows by putting a sleep
command (I used "sleep 10" when I was experimenting) in your .cshrc,
but that's only a stopgap.  I've just gotten used to the fact that
most of my windows start out with the character '>' (the last character
of my prompt) at the top instead of the entire login sequence.

I talked to Jordan Hayes about this last fall, and at that point he had
no solution.

-- 
David Elliott		...!pyramid!boulder!stan!dce
"Splish splash, I was rakin' in the cash"  -- Eno