From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 13:12:22 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA23912 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:12:22 -0700 Received: from unlisys.unlisys.NET (unlisys.unlisys.net [194.64.15.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA23905 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:12:16 -0700 Received: by unlisys.unlisys.NET from deadline.snafu.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 [@@]) id m0sPF5E-0000JIC; Fri, 23 Jun 95 22:12 MET DST Received: by deadline.snafu.de from deadline using uucp id m0sPF59-000J1KC; Fri, 23 Jun 95 22:12 MET DST (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.1) Received: by deadline.snafu.de from unlisys.unlisys.NET using smtp id m0sPEkR-000J19C; Fri, 23 Jun 95 21:50 MET DST (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.1) Received: by unlisys.unlisys.NET from bronze.coil.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 [@@]) id m0sPEkK-0000IWC; Fri, 23 Jun 95 21:50 MET DST Received: from localhost (echet@localhost) by bronze.coil.com (8.6.4/8.6.12) id PAA01904 for root@deadline.snafu.de; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:53:23 -0400 From: Eric Chet Message-Id: <199506231953.PAA01904@bronze.coil.com> Subject: Re: Xterms hang after open? To: root@deadline.snafu.de (Andreas S. Wetzel) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:53:21 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: from "Andreas S. Wetzel" at Jun 23, 95 07:34:19 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 800 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hi! > --- > > I'm noticing a strange behaviour of my x(c)terms nearly since I use > FreeBSD in the 2.0 and above versions. Although I would suggest it's > merely the tcsh shell which causes this behaviour. > Well, what happens exactly is: > You open an xterm or xcterm, position the window, and all you get > is an empty window with the cursor being in the upper left corner of the > window, but the shell doesn't come up with a shell prompt or anything. > As I can say this doesn't happen on a freshly rebooted machine, but more > often when the the machine has already been running for a while. Hello I have noticed similar behavior, sometimes xshells take anywhere between 15 - 60 seconds to become active. The same thing happens sometimes when I su from a xterm. Eric - echet@coil.com