loki@moncam.uucp (Never Kid A Kidder) (10/24/90)
Running R4 on Sun 4/110 (no FP chip!), SunOS 4.0:
(1) I was told that lines >1 pixel wide would now be rendered in fixed
point. This is only partly true; for instance, using the TWM Icon
Manager, the entries are indeed higlighted with lines rendered in
fixed point (~100 times faster!). However, everthing else I have
tried so far seems to use floating point; I'm refering specifically to
the highlighting of items in a window, when thick lines are drawn
around the box that the cursor has just entered. xman is *definitely*
using floating point routines. All I can assume is that the old
routines are still there and still being used. Can someone point me
to them and suggest a relatively painless way of doing this?
(2) I can't get xlock or xwd to run from inside a twm menu; I get
xlock: couldn't grab pointer! (1)
xwd: error: Can't grab the mouse.
when I try it. They both run fine from inside an xterm. Any ideas?
(3) Just a minor quibble; when resizing a window under twm, I must
first attempt to *increase* it before I can decrease it. Is there a
magic .twmrc option that's doing this? I've tried various likely ones
without much success.
(4) WARNING!!! Beware the plaid program! I just ran it and fatally
upset my server; I got some kind of `out of buffer space' error, and
could not kill it, and the server then refused to handle any more
mouse or keyboard events; the activity light suggested it was being
*very* busy doing something! I might be maligning the poor old plaid
program, but I don't really fancy destroying my server again just to
repeat it. Perhaps someone can shed some light on this.
TIA for any help.
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