Using Epoch 4.0 to a PC

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2 total messages Started by Frederick R. Phelan Jr. Wed, 29 Apr 1992 08:42

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Author: Frederick R. Phelan Jr.
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1992 08:42

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Hi,

I just built Epoch4.0 for an SGI running 3.3.  It works fine
to the main console, but when I try to run it via X windows
to my pc which is acting as an X server, the minibuffer 
window and the main window flash back and forth ... one minute
the minibuffer window is on top, and the next the main is on
top ... there is absolutely no control and it is unusable.

Have you any suggestions?

(BY the way I haven't tried installing any of the patches,
6 or 7, would that help?)

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Using Epoch 4.0 to a PC

#1515

Author: & Inder
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 18:33

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In article <5256@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.) writes:

   Hi,

   I just built Epoch4.0 for an SGI running 3.3.  It works fine
   to the main console, but when I try to run it via X windows
   to my pc which is acting as an X server, the minibuffer 
   window and the main window flash back and forth ... one minute
   the minibuffer window is on top, and the next the main is on
   top ... there is absolutely no control and it is unusable.

   Have you any suggestions?

I once had behaviour something like this simply running on a Sun,
although I don't remember the exact details.  However, if I
set "auto-raise-screen" to t and put the mouse into the
area where a screen overlaps the minibuffer, I
can generate behaviour much like you are describing.  
Taking the mouse out of the overlap region eventually quietens things down,
although it takes a while (several seconds), presumably while epoch
chews through a backlog of "entry" events.

Could it be that the initial window configuration that
you get (perhaps because of the smaller screen of the PC) is causing
you the problem?

Robert.
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