[452] in Athena Bugs
A bug with xclock
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 22 23:44:19 1988
From: <vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 88 23:40:20 EDT
Program with which you had the problem: xclock
Name of person who discovered the bug: Chris VanHaren
Their MIT phone number: W:253-0111 H:225-9418
Their MIT address: 450 Memorial Drive, #H418
Their Athena Login ID: vanharen
Name of consultant reporting bug: Chris VanHaren (vanharen)
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A brief synopsis of the problem:
When called by giving the full pathname (/usr/bin/X/xclock),
xclock ignores some Xdefaults. When called, and in search path, it
works fine.
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Please describe the problem in detail (mention any necessary files or
commands that may be involved, on which machine the bug happened, and what
the program did that was wrong):
#
# xclock defaults (.Xdefaults file)
#
xclock.Mode: analog # was accepted
xclock.reverseVideo: on # was NOT accepted
xclock.update: 1 # was NOT accepted
xclock.geometry: =92x92+0-4 # was accepted
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Repeat by (please enter a set of commands which will allow us to
repeat the bug):
Type /usr/bin/X/xclock and see if it uses all of your
.Xdefaults. Obviously, this is only on 5.5T machines, so
I don't know if it can be easily checked out by anyone in
E40. It may still be a bug under 6.0 (?).
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Fix (if you know what it is):
Unknown. May be best to ignore, if 6.0 fixes it anyway.
I'm assuming that the 6.0 xclock is substantially different
from the 5.5 xclock. Perhaps the bug was fixed, intentionally
or otherwise.
