michels@bob.ide.com (03/21/90)
I recently posted a question about xterm crashing when a scrollbar was
added on some servers. I got a prompt response from David Elliott.
Apparently, Sony's X11R3 server does some of the error checking that
most servers started doing in release 4. The scollbar problem goes
away when I turn on backwards compatibility mode by using the "bc"
option when running the server (xinit or Xnews).
It appears that the HP-UX 7.0 server and the X11/NeWS server also are
stricter than early X11R3. I know that I can run X11R4 from the MIT
release and run xset bc, but we have customers running the HP-UX 7.0
server as shipped from HP and the X11/NeWS server as shipped by Sun.
Is there any way to turn on backwards compatibility for these two servers?
Alan Michels
michels@ide.com
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