[20274] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.0.26: Lock screen
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lisa Caroline Lewis)
Fri Apr 5 20:09:56 2002
Message-Id: <200204060107.UAA00715@m56-129-13.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:07:49 -0500
From: Lisa Caroline Lewis <lcl@MIT.EDU>
System name: m56-129-13.mit.edu
Type and version: Sun-Blade-100 9.0.26
Display type: ifb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: twm
What were you trying to do?
I attempted to start "Lock screen" from the menu on standard Athena
session. (One of these days RSN I'll customize it, but haven't quite
yet. The shame.)
What's wrong:
The session half-froze. That is, the cursor still moved about the
screen, but was in the shape it takes when over a zephyr message, and
clicking did nothing. It also could not cut and paste. Zephyrs
continued to appear on the screen, however.
What should have happened:
Um, the obvious. ;-) The screen should have gone to a lockscreen, and
the session should not have frozen.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Processes running at the time included:
->zephyr (many messages were on layered on the screen at the time)
->There were two xterms going in addition to the Terminal window. FWIW,
the xterms were ever so slightly non-standard: alias xterm 'xterm -sb -sl 2000'
->exmh
->Netscape (I think there were two or three windows open at the time)
->ssh (to Boston University) in one of the xterms
->It is possible there was a (minimized?) game of Spider, though I don't
think so.
->The Console window was not hidden.
I think that's everything.
(The situation was discussed briefly in the help instance around 19:40)
