[17995] in Athena Bugs
Re: 8.4 Linux bugaboos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 14 14:36:17 2000
Message-Id: <200007141836.OAA15733@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:05:55 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 14:36:14 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> 1) I use 'vi' as my editor within 'mh'. When I write an e-mail
> with 'comp', the screen does not get refreshed properly when I
> exit from 'vi'. The cursor is in a strange spot, and there is
> lots of extra text from earlier in the xterm session on the
> screen.
This has been reported before, but unfortunately I haven't been able
to reproduce it, either as systest or as myself.
> 2) If the screen resolution is set to 1024x768, clicking on the
> "Special" menu in Dash causes the entire Dash menu bar to move to the
> left, obscuring the one or two of the leftmost menu items and revealing
> the root window on the right side. You have to quit Dash and restart
> it to get the full menu back.
This is a generic dash bug, I think. dash appears to spring back to
its original position if a submenu triggers the shift, but not if a
main menu does.
I don't guarantee that we'll fix this problem, but I'll take a look.
