hill@luke.lanl.GOV (Jeff Hill) (06/14/91)
>Could some one post a summary of xnews/Openwindows gripes. I would be >interested in seeing them. XNews servers have problems with XFreeColors. I have noticed that when I have two or more small override redirect save under popups up the XNews server seems to do the save under only for the first window to map and sends expose events for the others. Worse yet the XNews server seems to occasionally fail to send this expose to the root window. This leaves the root window with a portion of my menu left displayed after I have unmapped it from the display! The XNews server also seems to not send exit/enter window events when a pointer grab is on. The XNews server does not always place a child of root where you ask it to (the window sometimes comes up at coordinates 0,0). This problem does not occur when using olwm on the MIT server. I am afraid that this would be a longer list if I kept better records. I am usually able to solve problems such as these by rearranging my applications so they only use X features which work on most of the common X servers. Afterall XNews is a very commonly used server even if it it is an uncommon implementation of X. Jeff