Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 05:42:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> To: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pasting from rxvt to Netscape - core dumps Message-ID: <199706031042.FAA01410@main.gbdata.com> In-Reply-To: <19970528105515.31616@blueberry.co.uk> from Nik Clayton at "May 28, 97 10:55:15 am"
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Nik Clayton wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone had problems under X cutting text from an rxvt window, and > pasting it into Netscape's Open URL dialog? I can get this to core dump > with monotonous regularity. > > But cutting from rxvt, pasting into an xterm, and then cutting from the > xterm and pasting into Netscape works with no problems. > > FWIW, this is with > > rxvt v2.09 > Netscape 3.0 > XFree86 3.2 on a Diamond Stealth with the S3 server, running at 16bpp > > Unfortunately I don't have any other Motif binaries, so I don't know if this > is a generic problem between rxvt and Motif, or just Netscape. > > It's not exactly a serious problem, but I'm curious as to whether anyone > else has experienced it. > Hello, I've got the same setup here (except I'm at 8bits not 16) and it works fine. I belive that there used to a problem with netscape dumping like this if "EVERYTHING" was not setup right (nls and other things). Maybe this is it? Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups - http://WWW.GBData.com for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/FAQ.latin1
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