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Re: Minibuffer problem with epoch3.2

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From: Ken Laprade
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 14:13
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In <9106070139.AA28436@suite.sw.oz.au> peterc%suite.local@softway.sw.oz.au (Peter Chubb) writes:

>When using epoch on a MIPS running riscos4.0 and X11r4, if the window
>manager (twm) is told not to put a titlebar on the minibuffer, the
>minibuffer just grows and grows.  Eventually it stops, at around 300 lines
>big.

This is a bug in twm introduced in the last patch to X11r4.  I reported it
to x-bugs, but you can fix your own twm for now:

*** /projects/X/R4/mit/clients/twm/events.c-orig Wed Oct 31 16:50:23 1990
--- /projects/X/R4/mit/clients/twm/events.c      Tue Apr 30 13:59:22 1991
***************
*** 2198,2204 ****
        width = cre->width;
      }
      if (cre->value_mask & CWHeight) {
!       height = cre->height + Scr->TitleHeight + bw;
      }

      if (width != Tmp_win->frame_width || height != Tmp_win->frame_height)
--- 2198,2204 ----
        width = cre->width;
      }
      if (cre->value_mask & CWHeight) {
!       height = cre->height + Tmp_win->title_height;
      }

      if (width != Tmp_win->frame_width || height != Tmp_win->frame_height)
---
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From: laprade@ringworld.harris-atd.com (Ken Laprade)
Newsgroups: gnu.epoch.misc
Subject: Re: Minibuffer problem with epoch3.2
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Date: 10 Jun 91 14:13:46 GMT
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