[comp.soft-sys.andrew] Scroll bars on X terminal

nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (05/16/91)

When I run Andrew on my Graphon X terminal at home, the scroll bars
often have glitches where the "elevator" has moved through a region and
left a too-light-grey smudge.  I've never though much about it, but it
has always happened.  It's also the case that, when I first start up
Andrew applications, my error log from the Graphon X server shows the
following errors:

Xgo: Unknown extension requested: Multi-Buffering
Xgo: Unknown extension requested: SHAPE

It just occurred to me to wonder:  Could these two facts be related? 
Does anyone know what is going on, either with the smudged scroll bars
or the odd error messages?

wollman@SADYE.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman) (05/16/91)

[Irrelevant note:  this is about the fourth time I've tried to write this
reply; each time so far I've tried to get out with ^X^\, which triggers
SIGQUIT.  >Sigh<.]

I'd sure like to know why ATK is asking for SHAPE!  I don't ever recall
ATK opening a non-rectangular window...

-GAWollman

PS:  I've never been able to try ATK out properly on an Xterm because
of the fonts.