[1529] in Athena Bugs
Re: empty, unloseable zephyrgrams (RT 6.0R)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 14 08:48:56 1988
From: <geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 13 Dec 88 16:23:30 -0500.
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 88 08:48:39 EST
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 88 16:23:30 EST
> Subject: empty, unloseable zephyrgrams (RT 6.0R)
> From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
>
> This afternoon I received what appeared to be be two empty
> zephyrgrams. That is, two completely blank Zephyrgram-sized windows
> appeared in the usual place on the display. Clicking the mouse on it
> did not cause either one to go away. The windows were otherwise
> normal-they could be exposed, covered, cycled, etc.
>
> At Bill Sommerfeld's suggestion I sent myself a notice with zwrite.
> That had the effect of causing the text of the two blank Zephyrgrams
> to appear in their empty windows. Those windows then immediately
> vanished, apparently because the mouse click events were queued.
i had the same thing happen, about the same time -
a zephyr windowgram with no text and which would
not go away. at the time, i was having other troubles
which i cavalierly assigned to network delays, and
so ignored it. your report proves it is worth some
more investigation. john?
--dan
