Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:26:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: olvwm on freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909131824450.18577-100000@crb.crb-web.com> In-Reply-To: <19990913183724.A274@marder-1>
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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 <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
> To: Michael D. Harlan <r3mdh@rworld.org>
> Cc: luzian scherrer <bug@po6.org>, 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)
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> >
> >
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