twm takes no control

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Thu Nov 20 19:32:00 GMT 2003


Brian,

Brian Ford wrote:

> 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?

Hmmm... sounds reasonable.

Harold



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