| Re: xdemo crashes twm in IDL 2.3 [message #355] |
Thu, 21 May 1992 06:59  |
steve
Messages: 19
Registered: March 1991
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In article <1992May20.172246.10939@colorado.edu>, ali@anchor.cs.colorado.edu (Ali Bahrami) writes:
> Greg Hennessy (gsh7w@virginia.edu) writes:
>> Having just upgraded from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0 and trying to get the new
>> improved xdemo package running, I found that xdemo causes twm to croak
>> with a segmentation violation, which means that most people's X11
>> session comes to a screeching halt. The problem comes after the call
>> to XMANAGER. A quick test shows that olwm does not crash.
>>
>> This is on a Sun 3/260 running 4.1.1 and X11R4 pl 18.
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> The problem turns out to be a bug in the R4 twm.
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> In version 2.3.0, IDL started installing the WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS property
[etc, etc]
> The presence of the WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS property causes
> twm to crash. Steven Swales of the University of Rochester
> Laboratory for Laser Energetics has already seen this problem and
> has patched the R4 twm to solve it. I have made it available for
> anonymous ftp from boulder.colorado.edu (128.138.240.1). It is
> in pub/idl/fixed_r4_twm.tar.Z.
[etc, etc]
For the record, it's Steve, or Stephen, but please dont call me Steven.
Glad I could be of help.
-steve
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