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Re: linux 9.0.1: control center, sawfish settings, and backspace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Thu May 17 15:59:28 2001
Message-Id: <200105171959.PAA14362@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
received Tue, 15 May 2001 11:14:55 -0400
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:59:10 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>None of it has been tested, so you might want to re-check after you
>have all these alleged fixes.
Mixed results:
>> Desktop->Screensaver fails:
No error now, just xalf hourglass and nothing happening.
>> "Look and Feel" and "Sawfish window manager" entries fail:
"Look and feel" seems ok now, but sawfish-capplet seems unresponsive (on
linux, choices just don't do anything; on solaris, it hangs gnomecc).
>> backspace key works at the shell prompt, but in zwrite and at the
>> comp 'What now?' prompt, none of backspace, delete, or ^H erase
>> chars; if I've done 'stty erase ^H' first it's fine
>
>Fixed, though it isn't pretty.
Sorry, still seeing this on linux and solaris 9.0.3.
