Re: remote xterm icons disappearing

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From: wohler
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1987 01:30

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In article <3234@osu-eddie.UUCP> bob@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>In article <8702252309.AA00475@sri-c3-5> wohler@SPAM.ISTC.SRI.COM (Bill Wohler) writes:
>>X10R4, dec 24 release.  xterm 6.6A2.
>>  
>>  ... remote xterms started with uwm ...  will die if their icons
>>  need to fix damage (ie. if the icon was previously covered, and
>>  then exposed) ...
>>
>>  xterms started locally, as in this menu entry, don't die as such.
>
>I had this problem too until I removed a specification for
>xterm.IconFont from my .Xdefaults.  It was rather inconvenient (:-),
>especially in the case that the icon that needed to do damage repair
>was my login window - down went the server and all my tools!

bob,

  yeah, that solution is very intuitive, isn't it?  unfortunately, i
  don't have the luxury of having an Xdefaults xterm.iconfont entry to
  remove. 

  my system is a sun-2/50 by the way running sun os 3.2.  others have
  told me about this problem as well.  is there a fix out there?  ed?

							--bw

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Subject: Re: remote xterm icons disappearing
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 20:30:20 EST
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