[10845] in Athena Bugs
Re: rsaix 7.6F: Login on IBM Powerstation 220
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 27 16:39:43 1993
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 16:39:39 -0400
To: bcb@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[10838] in Athena Bugs"
Hi Brian...
this is a know bug with the RS/6000's. Basically, what happens is
that if you ever close all your connections to the X server, it resets
to it's default state, blowing away changes to the root window and
changes to the resource database (what xrdb modifies, from the file
~/.Xresources). Normally, the console program keeps a connection
open, but when you run hide_console (or, becuase of the way it works,
config_console), you lose that last connection.
This bug has been around for a while, so I persoanlly don't expect it
to be fixed soon. :-( As a workaround, you could start something (like
your windowmanager) that keeps an open X connection around before
running hide_console, or just run `xrdb ~/.Xresources' from one of the
xterms, then run your .startup.X file manually, and kill off the
wrong-sizeed windows. (not pretty, but it works for me, since I use
an excessively simple initial login)
:-/
