-multiwindow + XP = nonstop Xwin.exe crashes

[Joseph Barillari <jbarilla at princeton dot edu>]

Hi.

When I run Xwin in the experimental -multiwindow mode 
                ("xinit -- -multiwindow -clipboard"),
on Windows XP, Windows regularly throws up a dialog indicating that
Xwin "has encountered a problem and needs to close," inviting me to
send an error report to Microsoft.

Strangely enough, Xwin continues to work despite the error message (if
I drag the dialog box offscreen so it doesn't get in the way.), with
one exception: I can't change the window manager focus. Any keystrokes
I type go into the window that was focused at the time of the error
message, regardless of where I click.

Even more strangely, the error message sometimes appears even when
Xwin isn't presently active. The last crash message occured while I
was browsing the web using a Windows-native build of Mozilla. (Most of
my X programs are running on remote machines over SSH tunnels, if that
might have anything to do with it.)

Is this a known bug in Xwin? If it is not, any suggestions on how to
diagnose it would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

--Joe

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Joseph Barillari -- http://barillari.org