two new -multiwindow bugs

[J S]

Does it make any difference to the titles if you change the color depth 
setting?

JS


>I have also experience the repeated keystroke bug.
>
>As for the window title bug, it was possible to give a new xterm a 
>different title under XWin-4.2.0-20. If you run xterm -T "my title" -e 
>bash, the xterm will have "my title" as the title. Versions after 
>XWin-4.2.0-20 don't seem to allow this anymore.
>
>Raymond
>
>Jack Tanner wrote:
>
>(By "new", I mean not discussed here before, not "new" as in only present 
>in the most recent release.)
>
>Thank you for your time and effort, Kensuke, Harold, et. al.
>
>I have two monitors, monitor 2 is physically left of monitor 1. 
>XFree86-xserv 4.2.0-28.
>
>0) the repeated keystrokes bug is still present in this release
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-03/msg00059.html
>
>1) window positioning bug
>
># Xwin -rootless -multiplemonitors -clipboard
># xterm -geometry +34+5
>
>The xterm is positioned in the upper left-hand corner of monitor 2.
>
># Xwin -multiwindow -multiplemonitors -clipboard
># xterm -geometry +34+5
>
>The xterm is positioned in the upper left-hand corner of monitor 1.
>
>Presumably, the xterm should get positioned on the same monitor regardless 
>whether I use -rootless or -multiwindow.
>
>2) window title bug
>
># Xwin -rootless -multiplemonitors -clipboard
># xterm -geometry +34+5
># TERM=xterm; export TERM
># xterm -e bash -i -c "ssh -X user at remote"
>
>The xterm window gets a title like "user at remote:~". This is very pretty 
>and very useful when you open a gazillion xterms, like I do. (The remote 
>machine has an /etc/bashrc that sets up $PROMPT_COMMAND appropriately. For 
>my stock RedHat 8 install, it's PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER} at 
>${HOSTNAME%% dot *}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007"'.)
>
># Xwin -multiwindow -multiplemonitors -clipboard
>[snip. same xterm, TERM and ssh setup as above, but note -multiwindow, not 
>-rootless Xwin invocation]
>
>The xterm window gets the title "bash". Awful, boring title.
>
>Best,
>JT
>


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