[20767] in Athena Bugs
Re: sw_messages doesn't take well to being backgrounded
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Sep 20 10:49:14 2002
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:49:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
cc: <bugs@MIT.EDU>
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On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Camilla R Fox wrote:
> Login as test account. Kill zwgc. rm .sw_messages. Run 'netscape &'.
> Lose.
>
> I should have been clearer in my initial report; the people who're xhosting
> oddly are losing because their dotfiles didn't start zwgc, so the wrapper's
> falling back to writing to their terminal.
Ah. Yes, that makes sense.
