From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 13 14:34: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.crb-web.com (ns1.crb-web.com [209.70.120.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C65C14F3D for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:34:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@crb.crb-web.com) Received: (qmail 18851 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Sep 1999 22:26:04 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:26:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy Reply-To: wayne@crb-web.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: olvwm on freebsd In-Reply-To: <19990913183724.A274@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had problems with the menus before also. The problem was the stock menus. Once I brought my menu definition file over from my other system all the menus looked fine. On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > 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 > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message