mayer@columbia.sparta.COM (05/30/91)
I have an interesting problem, the solution to which has not been obvious. Before I waste more time, I'd like to see if anyone else has had a similar problem and has any hints. I'm using a SPARC IPC with SunOS 4.1.1, with Sun's xnews X server and the virtual openlook window manager off the net (olvwm). This all started when I tried to convince olvwm to not put a title bar on epoch's (X version of GNU emacs) minibuffer window. Below are the relevent lines from my .Xdefaults. epoch*minibuf.class: Minibuffer OpenWindows.MinimalDecor: xbiff++ Console Minibuffer The problem is everytime I start epoch with these lines in .Xdefaults, olvwm crashes. After some experimenting, I determined that the minibuf.class line has nothing to do with it, its setting MinimalDecor for epoch that causes the problem (for example, using "epoch" instead of "Minibuffer" on the Decor line still crashes olvwm). It works fine when I use Sun's plain olwm or the Xsun server from the X11 tapes. Only when I use xnews and olvwm together does this occur. I've played with LD_LIBRARY paths to see if there was problem between Sun's and regular X's stuff, but no luck. This problem has not been completely consistent. Most of the time, I can consistently crash olvwm. However, occasionally, epoch does come up (without title bar on the minibuf and all). I'm not completely sure why, but I;ve almost convinced myself that this works only if I only have another emacs or epoch window active (i.e., by using plain emacs or epoch before adding Minibuffer to MinimalDecor). This last occurances has really frustrated me. Could there possibly be a problem with memory management on 4.1.1 (for example, shared libraries) that this particular set of circumstances is invoking? Beats me. Does this sound familar to anyone? If so, advice or hints are appreciated. I know that I can avoid the problem by using Xsun or olwm, but I like the xnews + olvwm combination (I still use an occasional SunView application, and virtual screens can't be beat). Thanks. --Frank Mayer (mayer@columbia.sparta.com) PS- Anyone figured out how to set icon Pixmap's for epoch or emacs? The obvious, epoch*iconPixmap, doesn`t seem to work.