[comp.windows.x] xterm and WM_HINTS: bug?

Kimbrough@dsg.csc.ti.COM (Kerry Kimbrough) (09/28/88)

Is this a known problem with R2 xterm? When my window manager reads xterm's
WM_HINTS property, it come back internally inconsistent. Specifically, the flags
field has bit 6 set, indicating the presence of a window group id, but the
property only contains eight 32-bit words, i.e. the window group id field is
missing. A server error seems unlikely because this problem has occurred
identically on two different servers (one R2, the other R1). Anybody else seen
this?

swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/29/88)

     Date:  Wed, 28 Sep 88  11:51:16 CDT
     From:  Kerry Kimbrough <Kimbrough@dsg.csc.ti.com>

     Is this a known problem with R2 xterm? When my window manager reads xterm's
     WM_HINTS property, it come back [with the wrong size].

This is a bug in the R2 Xlib.  It has been fixed for R3.