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Re: Some undesirable behaviour in Test77


Raymond,
Are you sure you are not running twm or any other window manager? you have
to REM twm in the batch file.
"Raymond Kwong" <kwong@control.toronto.edu> wrote in message
20030130163604.A17734@thor.control.toronto.edu">news:20030130163604.A17734@thor.control.toronto.edu...
> Harold:
>
> The latest X server, Test 77, does not crash with -multiwindow -clipboard
for
> me also. Thanks for the good work.
>
> There is, however, some undesirable behaviour with Test 77, which is not
> present in XWin-4.2.0-20.
>
> 1. I use the virtual desktop virtuawin. When I switch from another desktop
> to the one containing the xterms, I get incessant switching between xterms
> if there is more than one. This behaviour was reported by others, I think.
>
> 2. I have 2 xterms, one partially covering the other. If I click the one
> underneath to bring it to the front, the overlap area comes up only in
> outline. I can still see the material in the other xterm underneath. It is
as
> if the xterm brought up is transparent on the overlap area!
>
> These 2 problems are not observed with XWin-4.2.0-20.
>
> Let me know what details you need to know in connection with these two
> problems. Because of them, I normally still use XWin-4.2.0-20,
> manually starting xwinclip if necessary. Although I am not 100% sure, but
I
> think every X server later than XWin-4.2.0-20 that I tried exhibits
similar
> problems.
>
> Raymond
>




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