From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 8 7:51:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from venus.sunquest.com (venus.sunquest.COM [149.138.10.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1894137B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 07:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by venus.sunquest.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eA8FpCS02896 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:51:12 -0700 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:51:12 -0700 From: "Terry R. Friedrichsen" Message-Id: <200011081551.eA8FpCS02896@venus.sunquest.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: re: FreeBSD/alpha wm problems Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Can you be a little more specific on what > problems you are having so that we may be able to determine if > we can help you.Including error messages would help. OK. I wasn't really expecting X help from this list, which is why I hadn't detailed the problems earlier ... There are LOTS of problems, other than drawing glitches where a slice of the display maybe 5 pixels high or so gets drawn in the wrong place on the screen ... I'll just mention a few. 1) if you iconify an xterm that overlies another xterm, when you deiconify it, the part of its background that overlaid the other xterm is permanently switched to the overlaid xterm's color 2) if you bring up a root menu (by clicking on the background), only a transparent rectangle gets drawn (with the background showing through); dragging the mouse pointer through the menu rectangle paints the menu as the pointer hits each menu row 3) if said root menu overlaps an xterm, the overlapping chunk of root becomes the background of that piece of the xterm window There are others ... I saw the exact same problems reported in the freebsd-alpha mailing list archives about a year ago. I get the stripe of titlebar color in twm that is mentioned below, too - but that goes away if you "sleep 2" before firing up twm ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --dxRQSzdsN/lOP445 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 10:23:12AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Dave wrote: >=20 > >=20 > > Getting the same sorts of problems; System is a PC164SX w/a Diamond > > Stealth 3D 2000...under twm got wierd stripes of titlebar color in > > some resolution modes..fvwm2 looked fine but I couldn't move windows... > > afterstep is prety mellow but the toolbar is a set of solid black > > boxes lined up on the side of the screen, but clicking on one of > > them launches xterms :> If I click and produce the application > > laucher menu over an xterm the menu becomes the new permanent > > background of the xterm... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry R. Friedrichsen terry@venus.sunquest.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message