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Re: aterm under Cygwin/Xfree
I encountered exactly the same problem.
So I downloaded the most recent aterm sources and
compiled it without problems against the latest cygwin
and cygwin-xfree but the problem resists.
Frank-Michael.
Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> X 3.3.6 had X11R6.3 libraries, the latest cygwin-xfree is X11R6.4 based.
> Try recompiling aterm and linking to newer version of X libraries.
>
> Suhaib
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Yaron [mailto:jethro@freakzilla.com]
>>Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:39 PM
>>To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
>>Subject: aterm under Cygwin/Xfree
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>>I've been using Cygwin for ages, and had installed the xfree package
>>around a year ago. I wasn't actually running the xserver under Cygwin
>>because a year ago it wasn't all that usable yet. I was using Exceed,
>>which is a commercial X server, and was using the cygwin/xfree X
>>applications.
>>
>>I had also compiled aterm under cygwin and was using that.
>>
>>Lately I installed a new machine, and decided to try cygwin/xfree on
>>it. I
>>was delighted to see that the X server is now perfectly usable!
>>However,
>>aterm no longer worked correctly. The aterm seems to be waiting for
>>some
>>sort of buffer to fill before it refreshes it's display. Either that
>>or
>>there's some sort of timing issue. Either way, it makes aterm almost
>>unusable.
>>
>>The thing is, I thought this was a cygwin/xfree problem, since my old
>>machine had not had cygwin updated on it in a while, and still had X
>>3.3.6
>>on it. But about a week ago I upgraded cygwin (and NOT xfree) on my
>>old
>>machine, and aterm started exhibiting the same problem.
>>
>>I don't know if this is the right mailing list for this since it
>>doesn't
>>seem to be an xfree problem, but I figure people on this list might
>>have
>>encountered this sort of problem. I saw a similar question in the
>>archive,
>>but with no solution.
>>
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>
>>-Yaron
>>
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>>
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