lmjm@doc.imperial.ac.UK (02/02/89)
I'm having the following problem running xfig to my server (on an HLH Orion StarPoint screen). The problem seems to be related to the somthing the client is asking the server about itself. It does not happen if I run xfig on my machine drawing to another screen a microvax but does happen if I run the microvax drawing to my screen. With no special resource settings if I just run xfig It draws a suitably large rectangular window. The first problem is that it only draws a single verticle column of icons for the various options - so half of them are lost. It then attempts to give me a drawing area. It first draws it out as a box filling in most of the remaining space in the window, 7.5" tall by 10" wide, (with a top and right ruler) but after half a second it shrinks its height down to only 5 inches. The width remains the same. The message area at the bottom of the window is also shrunk vertically so that messages are barely viewable. Xfig works but the painting area is too small to do much useful in. If I run 'xfig -L' then I do get a double column pallete and the painting is drawn and it stays at 10" wide by 7.5" heigh. I've been trying, off and on, to fix this problem for ages. My brain is begining to hurt. After a lot of wandering around xfig and xtk I've no idea what the problem is. I should point out that I wrote the X server for the Orion. It seems fine for everything else. The only unusual thing about it are that it is 93 pixels/inch (I've trying changing const.h to match be 93 rather than 80 dpi - it doesn't help). Its also colour - but the problem happens on monochrome Orion screens as well. Any help or even pointers to where things might be amiss would be gratefully received. Lee -- Lee McLoughlin 01 589 5111 X 5028 Department of Computing,Imperial College,180 Queens Gate,London SW7 2BZ, UK Janet: lmjm@uk.ac.ic.doc Uucp: lmjm@icdoc.UUCP, ukc!icdoc!lmjm DARPA: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (or lmjm%uk.ac.ic.doc@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk)