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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:54:48 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk>
To:        Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: XView 3.2 menus are garbled..why??
Message-ID:  <19990608185447.B258@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990607211537.16297A-100000@crb.crb-web.com>; from Wayne Cuddy on Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:16:40PM -0400
References:  <19990607233636.F255@marder-1> <Pine.LNX.3.95.990607211537.16297A-100000@crb.crb-web.com>

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On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:16:40PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> Yes, I also see that problem.  CmdTool does other strange things on me also.
> I find it hard to believe we are the only people having problems with XView.
> 

It doesn't seem to be a popular wm :( (in the abandoned X desktop
contest it wasn't even listed as allowed).

I posted a question on -questions and -ports about it, but got no
reply.

> 
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 23:36:36 +0100
> > From: Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk>
> > To: Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>
> > Subject: Re: XView 3.2 menus are garbled..why??
> > 
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:01:23PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > > Running FreeBSD 3.2Stable,  I install XView 3.2lib/config/clients and olvwm.
> > > When I run olvwm and right click to see the menu the popup box appears empty
> > > until I move the mouse over it and then the menu contents appears and the
> > > menu items are written on top of each other.  This is not usable this way.
> > > Does anyone know how I might fix this?
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm afraid I don't have an answer to your problem, but as you are
> > running olvwm I was wondering if you've come across this problem,
> > that I've had since u/g to 3.1R from 2.2.8 and if so, do you know
> > the solution?
> > 
> > When running shelltool/cmdtool I can run a couple of commands and
> > then it just sits there at the prompt with the cursor flickering.
> > Switching to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) I see hundreds of 
> > 
> >    TTYSW pty write failure : Bad file descriptor
> > 
> > errors. The only solution is to kill the window.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Wayne
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
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> > _______________________________________________________________
> > Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK
> > CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry
> > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com                  http://www.radan.com
> > 
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