rbk@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Kirby) (01/16/90)
I am coding up a multiple process application, each process requiring one or more windows. To ease the interface I am using psuedo terminals and the -S option of xterm. Now I have a shell script for starting up the processes (which happen to be Lisp systems) in the background, but sometimes some of the processes windows fail to appear on the display. ps shows that the xterm processes are running, but no window. I am using twm and X11R3. I have experimented with uwm, but I prefer to have titles. The question is why is this happening, I guess that twm is missing some events, like open window, since I am using a poor Sparc station that gets slightly clobbered in starting up all these processes. Also I have noticed that sometimes if I use a background menu to open a xterm, nothing happens. Any ideas would be appreciated, especially if this is fixed in twm in R4. Richard.