Re: Some undesirable behaviour in Test77

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Raymond,

The clipboard functionality was not introduced until 4.2.0-21, so what 
happens when you run 4.2.0-25 without the -clipboard flag?

Can you download Test73 (== 4.2.0-21), run it without the -clipboard 
flag, and report if the bug is still there or not?

Thanks for testing,

Harold

Raymond Kwong wrote:
> Harold:
>
> The latest X server, Test 77, does not crash with -multiwindow -clipboard for
> me also. Thanks for the good work.
>
> There is, however, some undesirable behaviour with Test 77, which is not 
> present in XWin-4.2.0-20.
>
> 1. I use the virtual desktop virtuawin. When I switch from another desktop
> to the one containing the xterms, I get incessant switching between xterms
> if there is more than one. This behaviour was reported by others, I think.
>
> 2. I have 2 xterms, one partially covering the other. If I click the one
> underneath to bring it to the front, the overlap area comes up only in 
> outline. I can still see the material in the other xterm underneath. It is as
> if the xterm brought up is transparent on the overlap area!
>
> These 2 problems are not observed with XWin-4.2.0-20.
>
> Let me know what details you need to know in connection with these two 
> problems. Because of them, I normally still use XWin-4.2.0-20, 
> manually starting xwinclip if necessary. Although I am not 100% sure, but I
> think every X server later than XWin-4.2.0-20 that I tried exhibits similar
> problems.
>
> Raymond