[3016] in Release_7.7_team

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: netscape and sawfish continue downward spiral of death

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Oct 10 16:43:37 2001

Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:43:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>, <bugs@mit.edu>, <release-team@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200110101914.PAA21213@error-messages.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30L.0110101639560.28589-100000@iphigenia.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

I was reading this as a pure sawfish problem, with netscape as just one of
several examples of the behavior - which is why I ignored it. Should I be
looking into this? The only potential Netscape "fix" I can think of would
involve heavy tinkering with Netscape's X files, and that usually just
increases its propensity to explode on contact.


On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Greg Hudson wrote:

> > This problem continues to be with us and users continue to complain;
> > I just encountered a user who reports this has been happening to her
> > repeatedly.
>
> Okay, I submitted a patch to add the key bindings, and will put it in
> the next patch release.  (But I won't close the bug report, since
> there is also a netscape component to it.)
>


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post