[286] in testers
re: new window manager bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Nov 28 16:35:37 1989
To: don@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: your message of Mon, 27 Nov 89 18:19:58 -0500
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 89 16:35:11 EST
From: Ralph R. Swick <swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> when i use "-display" to put an xterm's display on a remote host's screen,
> i have to run /usr/ucb/reset in order to use the backspace key.
I asked Don to repeat this while I watched and here's the missing info:
1. the xterm was run from the console
2. the console didn't have Don's expected tty characteristics either
3. Don says that he is using dot files which were (twice re-)
customized from the prototype dot files. I verified that his
.cshrc and .login do source /usr/athena/lib/init/{cshrc,login}
as they should.
4. I note that stty dec has moved from $initdir/cshrc to $initdir/login
(good move! :-) and that the update time of $initdir/login is
after Don's login time.
I conclude that xterm and the window manager (mwm in this case)
are operating correctly and that possibly someone has already fixed
the real problem.
