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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Compiler Bug???
To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 22:42:15 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org,
        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971124211336.shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG> from "Simon Shapiro" at Nov 24, 97 09:13:36 pm
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> Boot SMP again.  Compile and run Xcoral 3.1.  Pretty cool editor and
> finally can do ``normal'' cut-n-paste, etc.  So I set its geometry in
> .Xdefaults to =200x400.  Nope.  Will not chnge size.
> 
> I modify parse.c to have the ugly printf you see below:
> 
>         flags = XParseGeometry ( buf,  &x, &y, &width, &he
> (void)fprintf(stderr, "%s.%d: x = %d, y = %d, w = %d, h =%d\n",
>               __FILE__, __LINE__, x, y, width, height);
> 
> It says:
> 
> parse.c.843: x = -272640524, y = 537577259, w = 200, h = 400
> 
> (x, y are corrdinates which are unspecified, which is OK to look this
> ugly)
> 
> Size is still huge (about 600x800).

[ ... add more printf()'s ... ]

> Guess what?  The window now has the specified geometry!

This one looks like timing.  You probably need to call Xsync()
to ensure the GC is written before you use it, or that the
attributes are set before you map the window, etc..

Common X programmer pilot error.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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