X11R4 problem with "text" widget

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From: Chris Maltby
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 07:06

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A while ago we installed X11R4 on our Sequent Balance from source, and
on the whole, it works well. We are using Labtam i960 based mono
X-terminals as servers.

We have two interesting problems however:

1)	xdm doesn't get the mit-magic-cookie for the terminal
	into the user's .xauthority file, so we can only use
	xdm in unsecure mode. I think I know where to start
	to debug this one.

2)      the Xaw library "text" widget (as used by xclipboard)
	behaves weirdly. It fails to get the text displayed in the
	window when typed or pasted, but random (and I mean random)
	bits of it appear when the line becomes wide enough to scroll
	side-to-side. Things only appear when scrolling, and the result
	looks much better when the scrolling is very slow.

	This bug is extremely annoying, as is affects lots of clients
	that use the text widget. I have no idea where to look for
	the bug.

Has anyone else run into this behaviour before? Can anyone suggest
a strategy for debugging number 2? Thanks for your help in advance.

Chris
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Chris Maltby - Softway Pty Ltd	(chris@softway.sw.oz.au)

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From: chris@softway.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby)
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Subject: X11R4 problem with "text" widget
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Date: 24 Sep 90 07:06:12 GMT
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