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From: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com>
Subject: Re: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X 
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The following reply was made to PR ports/28458; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com>
To: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/28458: Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X 
 support
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 08:35:32 -0400

 You can fix this easily by going Control Center > Launch Feedback > [x]
 "Do not distinguish between windows (compatibility mode)." I don't know
 why this fixes the problem, exactly, but it does. (At least for I.)
 
 Erik.
 
 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         28458
 > >Category:       ports
 > >Synopsis:       Gnome-1.4's use of Xalf out of sync with Linux X support
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-ports
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:
 > >Keywords:
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 27 09:40:01 PDT 2001
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     John Merryweather Cooper
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386
 > >Organization:
 > >Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD johncoop.MSHOME 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #18: Tue Jun 26 11:23:19 PDT 2001 jmcoopr@johncoop.MSHOME:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JOHNCOOP i386
 > 
 > 
 > >Description:
 >         With Gnome-1.4, it is no longer possible to start Linux X ports such as
 >         WordPerfect, StarOffice, RealPlayer, Linux-Netscape, etc. from a menu.
 >         Doing so results in a failure to start the application with various
 >         errors that seem to indicate that the Linux ports are looking for a
 >         Linux version of Xalf.  /compat/linux does not provide such support,
 >         and so these (and similar) applications refuse to start from a menu.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >         Just attempt to start any Linux X port . . .
 > 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 >         The work-around is to start Linux X ports from an xterm command prompt,
 >         but this is ugly and sort of defeats the purpose of having X in the
 >         first place.  Bottom line, /compat/linux's X support needs to be
 >         updated!
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
 > 
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