[13004] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.7F: xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn P Tesler)
Thu Dec 8 07:37:21 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 1994 07:37:16 EST
From: Glenn P Tesler <gptesler@MIT.EDU>
System name: m2-225-1
Type and version: POWER 7.7F
Display type: POWER_Gt1
What were you trying to do?
Open a new xterm window
What's wrong:
Certain control keys are set incorrectly (for stty) by starting
a new window with "xterm".
If I open a new window by clicking the left button on the root
window and selecting "New Window", or the right button and selecting
"Xterm", everything is fine; the output of stty is
athena% stty
speed 9600 baud; oddp
brkint -inpck icrnl ixoff onlcr
echo echoe echok
However, if I type "xterm &" in an existing window, then several functions
are assigned to ^C:
athena% stty
speed 9600 baud; oddp
eol <undef>; eol2 <undef>; susp = ^C; dsusp = ^C; reprint = ^C
werse = ^C; lnext = ^C
brkint -inpck icrnl ixoff onlcr
echo echoe -echok
In particular, hitting ^C invariably suspends rather than kills a process.
Typing "stty sane" sets things correctly.
Bizarrely, the definitions for "New Window" and "Xterm" in
/usr/athena/lib/X11/system.mwmrc are both to execute "xterm &", the
very command which fails when typed manually.
I started up a session with "[F2] Ignore Customizations" and this
problem happened reliably, so it's not my configuration. I've only seen this
happen on the RS-6000.
What should have happened:
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