indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) (08/16/90)
I never had the following problem when I used SunView. Now when I set up a OpenWindows Menu Item to fireup elm in a shelltool, I get unpredictable results. The various things that happened are: o The initial elm menu display was mangled, seemed like elm was unable to determine the size of the window. o The menu was blank... header line had the # of messages displayed and a Command: sat at the bottom of an empty screen. Has any one been playing with OpenWindows 2.0 and elm? I am running on an SPARCstation SLC with SunOS 4.1; Elm Version and Identification Information: Elm 2.3 PL5, of May 1, 1990 (C) Copyright 1986, 1987 Dave Taylor (C) Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 USENET Community Trust ---------------------------------- Configured Sat Jul 14 02:08:59 PDT 1990 ---------------------------------- From: and Reply-To: addresses are good: USE_EMBEDDED_ADDRESSES Return addresses will not be optimized: not OPTIMIZE_RETURN Prefers Internet address formats: INTERNET No debug options are available: not DEBUG Crypt function enabled: CRYPT Mailbox editing not included: not ALLOW_MAILBOX_EDITING Calendar file feature enabled: ENABLE_CALENDAR (Default calendar file is calendar) -- iNDRA | indra@amd.com (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445 | {ames decwrl apple pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra | MS 167; Box 3453; 901, Thompson Pl., Sunnyvale, CA 94088
indra@ashirvad.amd.com (Indra Singhal) (08/17/90)
In article <1990Aug15.210147.11131@amd.com> indra@ashirvad.amd.com I write: >I never had the following problem when I used SunView. Now when I set up >a OpenWindows Menu Item to fireup elm in a shelltool, I get >unpredictable results. The various things that happened are: > o The initial elm menu display was mangled, seemed like > elm was unable to determine the size of the window. > o The menu was blank... header line had the # of messages > displayed and a Command: sat at the bottom of an empty > screen. > >Has any one been playing with OpenWindows 2.0 and elm? I am running on >an SPARCstation SLC with SunOS 4.1; After a bunch of experimentation, I was able to have OpenWindows 2.0 shelltool handle elm OK by using the -I option: shelltool -Wh 50 -Ww 80 -I "exec elm" to get a 80x50 window and I guess since the exec elm is invoked in a different fashion than a command tacked at the end of the statement: shelltool -Wh 50 -Ww 80 elm it behaves perfectly. -- iNDRA | indra@amd.com (Indra Singhal) (408) 749-5445 | {ames decwrl apple pyramid sun uunet}!amdcad!indra | MS 167; Box 3453; 901, Thompson Pl., Sunnyvale, CA 94088