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Article #37063Re: Twm hangs doing an xhost (request for help)
From: Miles O'Neal
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 20:01
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 20:01
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In article <9751@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes) writes:
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|When running twm, if I click on a menu entry with the following binding:
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| f.exec "xhost hostname"
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|twm just hangs, and I have to kill it off (with great difficulty). Since
|SIGQUIT won't kill it, I can't get a core dump to track down the problem.
|Just executing "xhost hostname" is no problem, and uwm doesn't suffer from
|this difficulty. Twm seems to run pretty well, otherwise. Any clues?
haven't tried under R4, but under R2 & R3, you need to throw it
into background with a & .
-Miles O'Neal
{yr fave backbone here}!emory!stiatl!meo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!stiatl!meo From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Twm hangs doing an xhost (request for help) Keywords: twm Message-ID: <9068@stiatl.UUCP> Date: 20 Feb 90 20:01:52 GMT Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Prototype IS the Product..." Lines: 16