[5958] in Athena Bugs
xcluster (esp. on an RT)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (metis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 6 12:04:21 1990
From: metis@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 90 12:04:09 -0400
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Hi,
The default settings for the xcluster window are too big for the RT's
screen. Much essential information disappears to the right and below
the bottom of the screen, including the "quit" button. This is
particularly bad since the usual ways of quitting out of the program,
C-c and C-d are ignored when in the xcluster window. Experienced
users obviously have no trouble finding the window in which they
started xcluster and killing the job, but I suspect inexperienced
users would be quite frustrated at first.
What I think should happen:
1) C-c and C-d should quit one out of xcluster automatically (just
like they quit one out of xdvi).
2) The window should be resized (by default) so that it fits fully on all
workstations screens with room to spare. Perhaps it would be best for
it to leave space at the top and the bottom where people generally
have their other windows so that they can return to them easily.
[3) Of course the right values should be returned by both cview and
xcluster, and are not yet, but assume this bug has already been
reported]
Tom Roby
