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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:05:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <markov@globalnet.co.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: XView 3.2 menus are garbled..why??
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.990608140412.20934A-100000@crb.crb-web.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990608185238.A258@marder-1>

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It does not seem to be olvwm that was the problem.  I created my own menu
files and they look fine now.  It looks like the default menus don't work
correctly on my system.

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:52:39 +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 Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 09:25:26PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > I forgot to ask you.  Do you also see the menu problem that I see?
> > 
> 
> No, but I'm running 3.1R (from the CD). olvwm has worked fine for
> me on 2.1.5 and 2.2.[2678]. I've only had the shell/cmdtool problem
> on 3.1 and the menu problem seems to be a new feature of 3.2 :-(
> 
> > 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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> _______________________________________________________________
> 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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