Re: twm takes no control

[Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Dai,
>
> Dai Itasaka wrote:
>
> > It is not just Cygwin version of twm. Exactly the same symptom is
> > observed when using a twm on a RedHat or SuSE box managing a cygwin
> > display.
> >
> > It is obvious that it is not twm that is broken.
>
> So it is another little issue related to the shared Xt and Xaw
> libraries.  I did a search in the twm sources for "Vendor", "Shell",
> "VendorShell", etc. but didn't find anything.  I am sure that you can
> probably find info on how the OS/2 guys handled this bug, but searching
> for "OS2" turned up nothing in the twm sources either.
>
I don't think so, Harold.  If this happens with twm run from other OSs,
that eliminates twm itself and all its dlls, doesn't it?  It must be
internal to the Cygwin X server, or its dlls, right?

Dai,  could you test the inverse?  Cygwin's twm controlling a RedHat or
SuSE X server?  I think that would definately rule out twm and its dlls.

> I am at a loss.  As I said, this is yours to debug further.  If twm is
> the only app that is broken by the shared libs, then I am still not
> particularly concerned.  If it turns out that every other app is broken,
> or a significant number of other apps are broken, then I will certainly
> become concerned.
>
I don't have any examples, but to me, the description implies the latter
ought to be the case.

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