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In article <9751@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> gdykes@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes) writes:

   When running twm, if I click on a menu entry with the following binding:

	   f.exec "xhost hostname"

   twm just hangs, and I have to kill it off (with great difficulty).

I had this problem too, and found two solutions for it.  You can
simply start xhost in the background, by saying

	f.exec "xhost hostname" &

od you can add a line

	NoGrabServer

to the .twmrc file.  I think the problem is that xhost will try to
make a connection to the X server, but the server is grabbed by twm
while the menu is posted.  The menu will not be removed until xhost
has returned, so this is a very beautiful case of deadlock.

You can also do both of the above, which is what I do.
-- 
Simon Leinen.