[8375] in Athena Bugs
RE: rsaix 7.3M: console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 10 17:04:16 1991
From: vanharen@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 17:05:06 -0400
To: samalone@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8176] in bugs
Hello.
I've investigated the bug you described, and found that it only
occurs when using mwm. The problem is a bug in mwm, and is present on
all the platforms I tried.
I had thought that this bug was fixed in mwm, but I was wrong.
The OSF did manage to fix one problem that caused similar failures, but
they missed this one. When I was testing out the new mwm for this
release, I tested it in one way, but unfortunately, I didn't test the
failure-mode you described. I thought they were the same bug, but now I
see I was wrong.
At any rate, I've sent a bug report into the OSF, and hopefully
they'll have it fixed by the time the next release happens.
In the meantime, you can correct the problem in your own X
resources, by adding this line to your ~/.Xresources file:
*console.window.forceNWGravity: True
Then, you can either re-load your resources and re-config your console,
by typing:
xrdb ~/.Xresources
config_console
or, you can just wait and next time you log in, everything will be fine.
The two commands listed above are only necessary during the login when
you change the ~/.Xresources file.
The other solution is to not use MWM. Fortunately, twm does not
exhibit the same problem that mwm does, which is a another reason I
didn't notice this earlier -- I use twm.
Thanks,
Chris VanHaren
