Re: Insight 5.0 and GDB 5.0

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Bruce Stephens wrote:
> 
> "Eray Ozkural (exa)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:
> 
> > Bruce Stephens wrote:
> > > You might try explicitly undefining TK_USE_INPUT_METHODS in
> > > src/tk/generic/tk.h.  In at least some linux X servers, this is quite
> > > expensive.  (There was discussion of this a year or two ago on
> > > comp.lang.tcl.)
> >
> > Does this mean insight/sourcenav works very well on X servers
> > other than XFree86?
> 
> <http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=528799292> suggests it might work
> fine on XFree86, sometimes.
> 

Interesting.  Thanks.


> For what it's worth, both seem to work fine for me (XFree86 on i386
> GNU/Linux).
> 

I couldn't find anyone hit by this around here either.


> I don't know the details, but it appears that X server configuration
> and things may be critical---so some people might see a problem where
> others don't, even when using very similar systems.
> 

They don't seem to know what triggers it as well.

Maybe Eray should post his machine hardware and XFree86 configuration, but
this would be the wrong list anyway.  comp.lang.tcl  is the appropriate
forum.


> Try undefining TK_USE_INPUT_METHODS and rebuilding.  It's not going to
> affect usage of Insight, as far as I can see.
> 

It centainly worth a try.

I wouldn't rule out the video card driver theory, although it may be
triggered by the above.  In any way, undefining TK_USE_INPUT_METHODS
seems the first thing to try.



Thanks for the hint.

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