Problems with twm?

Peter Handel phandel at cise.ufl.edu
Tue Jun 29 04:01:11 EST 1999


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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 99 19:10:16 MESZ
From: Wulf Hofbauer <wh at echo.chem.TU-Berlin.DE>
To: Peter Handel <phandel at cise.ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: Problems with twm?

> Since I upgraded to r5, my twm menus don't print the text unless I
> roll the mouse over them; this exact same .twmrc worked perfectly
> under r4.  Here's a segment of my .twmrc:
> 
> menu "hosts"
> {
> "Logins"        ("white":"DarkSlateGrey")       f.title
> "Local Shell"   !"xterm &" #theres more here
> ...
> "-----"         f.title
> "Exit"          ("white":"CornFlowerBlue") f.quit
> }
> 
> Is this the same thing you're experiencing?

Yep. So it's not just me :). I suspect the X server tries to optimize
away some expose events and screws up badly. I might check Xpmac to
see if the problem persists.

- Wulf


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