Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 21:36:04 -0500 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Fred <fred@blakemfg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: nedit problem Message-ID: <AANLkTimA4qfSPyBjp2%2BBfWBNJUTU4SMS56Vg3aFeDvnT@mail.gmail.com>
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--002354867bdce75bdb049ba81772 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Fred Boatwright wrote: > On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: > > Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > >> After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right > >> mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text > >> area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and > >> the X session becomes completely locked up. I have to stop X and > >> restart it. I have tried to deinstall nedit and rebuild it but this > >> didn't help. It is nedit-5.5 with Motif 2.2.3. > > This is a known problem with many Motif-based applications, arising > > from a bug in recent versions of Xorg. It has been corrected > > upstream, and it is likely that this problem will be fixed when the > > ports freeze ends shortly after the release of FreeBSD 7.4 and 8.2, if > > not before. If you can't wait, you can try using the patches from: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=154510 > > > I have tried several editors that are horrible. Axe installed from > packages dumps core. There were a lot of warnings that later versions > of libraries were installed than axe was expecting. Does the maintainer > need to know this? Sadly, there is no maintainer for that port. But yes, you should file a Problem Report (PR), so that people will know that there may be a problem: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/index.html > Can you tell me how to install the Xorg patch to make nedit work? I > have not worked with getting source code or compiling from source. I > can do the edit on another computer. Get an up-to-date ports tree. (If you don't know what that means, read the relevant portions of the FreeBSD Handbook.) Place the attached patch (or a trimmed version of the patch from the PR that I cited earlier) in ports/x11-servers/xorg-server/files under a name like 'patch-dix__events.c', that begins with 'patch-', and doesn't overwrite any of the existing patches. In the ports/x11-servers/xorg-server directory, run 'make deinstall clean install && make clean', or use your favorite third-party port updating tool to force an update of that port. (If you want to create a backup package of your patched version of xorg-server, and you are not using a port updating tool with this feature, then either 'make package' in that directory before running the final 'make clean', or use 'pkg_create -b "xorg-server-*"'.) I'm assuming that you are already using the latest version of x11-servers/xorg-server; if instead you are using an earlier version, and packages that depend on it, you will probably need to update them as well. b. --002354867bdce75bdb049ba81772--
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