RE: Backticks in 4.1.0

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I will try to reproduceit with your startup script.  I have not seen it.
However, once in a while I used to get a tiny Virtual Windows Manager icon
for vtwm, which I always assumed was due to a bug in vtwm.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fabio Somenzi [mailto:Fabio@Colorado.EDU] 
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 4:53 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Cc: Fabio Somenzi
> Subject: Backticks in 4.1.0
> 
> 
> I have installed the binaries for 4.1.0 on my desktop PC running
> 
>   Windows98
>   cygwin 1.3.2
>   no previous xfree installation
> 
> All works well except for the fact that about once a minute, a
> backtick ('`') appears in the window that has the focus.
> 
> I have installed 4.0.3 on my laptop, running
> 
>   Windows98SE
>   cygwin 1.3.2
> 
> and, with the same general setup, I have not seen this problem.
> 
> On the desktop, I have tried both twm and vtwm as window managers.  I
> took the latter from the 4.0.3 distribution.)
> I have tried vtwm with and without .vtwmrc.  The results are the same.
> 
> I start xfree with this simple script, which apart from the screen
> parameters, is the same on the laptop:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> eval `ssh-agent`
> XWin -screen 0 1280x1024x32 -whitepixel 255 -blackpixel 0 -engine 4 &
> vtwm &
> xsetroot -solid aquamarine4
> xclock -geometry 80x80+1134+0 &
> xterm -n xterm-1 -j -ls -sb -sl 500 -rightbar -geometry 
> +361+0 -e bash &
> xterm -n xterm-2 -j -ls -sb -sl 500 -rightbar -geometry 
> +0+396 -e bash &
> xterm -n xterm-3 -j -ls -sb -sl 500 -rightbar -geometry 
> +508+343 -e bash &
> exit
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> (The laptop has 1024x768x16 instead of 1280x1024x32.)
> 
> The problem exists also if I comment out the "ssh-agent" line.  It
> exists also when I have all local clients.  However, the backticks do
> not seem to show up when the window in which xfree runs is
> "minimized."  Any suggestions on what I could try next?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Fabio Somenzi
>