Re: aterm under Cygwin/Xfree

[Frank-Michael Moser <moser at decodon dot com>]

I encountered exactly the same problem.
So I downloaded the most recent aterm sources and
compiled it without problems against the latest cygwin
and cygwin-xfree but the problem resists.

Frank-Michael.


Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:

 > X 3.3.6 had X11R6.3 libraries, the latest cygwin-xfree is X11R6.4 based.
 > Try recompiling aterm and linking to newer version of X libraries.
 >
 > Suhaib
 >
 >
 >>-----Original Message-----
 >>From: Yaron [mailto:jethro@freakzilla.com]
 >>Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:39 PM
 >>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
 >>Subject: aterm under Cygwin/Xfree
 >>
 >>  Hey all,
 >>
 >>I've been using Cygwin for ages, and had installed the xfree package
 >>around a year ago. I wasn't actually running the xserver under Cygwin
 >>because a year ago it wasn't all that usable yet. I was using Exceed,
 >>which is a commercial X server, and was using the cygwin/xfree X
 >>applications.
 >>
 >>I had also compiled aterm under cygwin and was using that.
 >>
 >>Lately I installed a new machine, and decided to try cygwin/xfree on
 >>it. I
 >>was delighted to see that the X server is now perfectly usable!
 >>However,
 >>aterm no longer worked correctly. The aterm seems to be waiting for
 >>some
 >>sort of buffer to fill before it refreshes it's display. Either that
 >>or
 >>there's some sort of timing issue. Either way, it makes aterm almost
 >>unusable.
 >>
 >>The thing is, I thought this was a cygwin/xfree problem, since my old
 >>machine had not had cygwin updated on it in a while, and still had X
 >>3.3.6
 >>on it. But about a week ago I upgraded cygwin (and NOT xfree) on my
 >>old
 >>machine, and aterm started exhibiting the same problem.
 >>
 >>I don't know if this is the right mailing list for this since it
 >>doesn't
 >>seem to be an xfree problem, but I figure people on this list might
 >>have
 >>encountered this sort of problem. I saw a similar question in the
 >>archive,
 >>but with no solution.
 >>
 >>
 >>TIA,
 >>
 >>
 >>-Yaron
 >>
 >>--
 >>


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