[8127] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.3M: dash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chad Brown)
Sun Sep 8 13:51:26 1991
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 91 03:20:07 EDT
From: " Chad Brown " <yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: w20-575-3
Type and version: POWER 7.3M
Display type: graygda
What were you trying to do?
see how dash delt with the RS/6000
What's wrong:
There are certain things it doesn't do well:
1) the clock is not on the far right corner. It's not
dealling with the 1280x1024 display well
2) It's shove-the-menubar-over-to-avoid-the-edge-of-the-screen
behavior causes it to re-map itself (after
correctly showing the info it need to move over to show)
minus about 7-10 pixels from the bottom. It shows all
but the very bottom of the lowercase 'c' in Special.
The Restart Dash option fixes this.
3) The Communication menu seems to have decided that xmh
is unavailable (even though /usr/athena/xmh exists), and
it seems to know that the screen saver is unavailable, but
it doesn't know that xrn is gone.
4) Mayple gives this error:
Maple: couldn't load /afs/.athena/system/config/dash/maple.yesno.rsaix;
trying default
Nothing happens after this. There is no process that
mentions mayple running on this workstation.
5) xcluster from a RS/6000 doesn't acknowledge the existance
of any RS/6000's. I know this isn't a dash problem, but
I started xcluster from dash, so... :^)
6) Xess comes up fine, in a window about 3 inches to wide...
for a 1280 pixel display! This is a little extreme, IMHO.
// Thar be Flames here!
7) There isn't a good way that I know of to use Dash without
having it span the top of the screen. This is something
I think should be changed. (discussion on the discuss
meeting?)
