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Re: MWM 2.0 freezes display
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Johnie Stafford)
Wed Oct 30 20:57:13 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 96 19:52 CST
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In-reply-to: <9610301009.AA11996@harrel.com> (harrisw@harrel.com)
From: jms@pobox.com (Johnie Stafford)
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>>> On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:09:19 -0500 (EST), harrisw@harrel.com (Walter Harris) said:
wh> Sometimes, when a user double-clicks to restore an iconified window,
wh> the X display will freeze (XFree86-3.1.2, RH Motif 2.0). This happens after
wh> the Motif window manager menu appears (restore/maximize/close, etc.).
wh> The frozen display will not respond to any mouse clicks, though the
wh> mouse pointer will move around the screen. Clicking on "Restore" or
wh> anything else visible has no effect.
wh> I have found only two effective way to unfreeze the screen without
wh> rebooting. One is Ctl-Alt-Backspace to kill X. The other is Alt-F1.
wh> After Alt-F1, all of the "missed" mouse clicks are executed rapidly in
wh> sequence!
I've found that <Esc> also works. I think this is a long-time bug in
Motif. It isn't specific to Red Hat Motif. I noticed the same bug in
the mwm that came with "MoTeeth" (Motif v1.2). I've never heard of a
fix.
Johnie
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