[3799] in Athena Bugs
xdvi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Sun Dec 10 13:54:22 1989
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 89 13:54:05 -0500
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
When I use xdvi (/urvd/root/usr/athena/xdvi on vs6.4A packs,
presumably also on 6.3B packs (mod-time Jul 17)) it doesn't deal with
my xresources correctly. This looks like it may be a toolkit problem,
as only the menus are confused.
The environment:
Only *reverseVideo should have an effect on xdvi:
alecto% grep -i dvi ~/.Xresources
alecto% grep '^\*.*' ~/.Xresources
*reverseVideo: on
*borderwidth: 1
*jumpscroll: true
*thickness: 8
What happens:
The xdvi display of a TeX document works fine, but if I hold down a
mouse button, I get a black box with just a white border. There is no
text, or other indication of the purpose of the new window. Now, I
know we want our applications to function in a user-transparent
manner, and putting all the complicated stuff in a black-box achieves
that goal, but I didn't think the user interface was supposed to be in
a black box, too....
What should have happened:
I'm not sure, since it's been a long time since I've used a menu in
xdvi, but I presume those boxes were menus, and that they should have
had white text printed on a black background.
