From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 13 10:45:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.global.net.uk (sand2.global.net.uk [195.147.246.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6121014D21 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:45:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@globalnet.co.uk) Received: from pf8s02a02.client.global.net.uk ([195.147.146.249] helo=marder-1.) by sand2.global.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 11QaAg-0005Wb-00; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:45:42 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id SAA00877; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:37:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:37:25 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Michael D. Harlan" Cc: luzian scherrer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: olvwm on freebsd Message-ID: <19990913183724.A274@marder-1> References: <19990913010010.6106.qmail@po6.org> <19990912233252.P89179@rworld.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990912233252.P89179@rworld.org>; from Michael D. Harlan on Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 11:33:10PM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 11:33:10PM -0700, Michael D. Harlan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 01:00:10AM +0000, luzian scherrer wrote: > : hi, > : > : just saw your posting about the broken olvwm port with freebsd (i use 3.2) - > : did you get the problem solved? i'd like to use it too, but like this i > : can't. > : > : cya, > : -luzian > : -- > : finger(1) my email-address for additional information. > > No, ovlwm is still broken. The menus don't work correctly (items overwrite > themselves in the X11 display) among other problems. Hopefully by CC'ing the > mailing list we can get the ball rolling on a fix. > I've a sneaking suspicion that I participated in the original thread but anyway, the menus work fine for me. I installed the package, not the port, off the 3.1 CDs. The only thing that doesn't work is {shell,cmd}tool. It starts, you can enter a couple of commands but then it appears to hang. Switching to the console show a continuous stream of: TTYSW pty write failure: Bad file descriptor I was intending to build a debug version to try and sort it out, but I've got used to using xterm so haven't bothered. > -- > Mike Harlan (r3mdh@rworld.org) > http://www.rworld.org/~r3mdh/ http://www.rworld.org/ > http://linksdepot.rworld.org/ http://browns.rworld.org/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message