Re: Addendum [Re: Eterm and console]
Bart De Win (bart.dewin@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 17:29:26 +0200 (CEST)
David Mihm writes:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Bart De Win wrote:
>
> > David Mihm writes:
> > > I don't know if you have solved your problems yet, but I have just
> > > returned from my vacations.
> > I hope you enjoyed your vacantions. And thanks for your worrying ... ;)
>
> Not really - I don't have a laptop :)
:)) Same story here. My girlfriend wanted to take a book on vacations
and so I said I wanted to take a portable (which I don't have either) and she
wouldn't let me !! The world is unfair ... ;))
>
> This is odd, I wouldn't think that Eterm was being called by
> autoexec as root/nobody (owner of the X-server). I, at one time, had my
> user not showing the scroolbar and root showing it and never experienced
> this problem. I wonder if adding the ~/.Eterm tree to root will solve
> this - worth a try. Did you ever tell me what release of Linux you were
Did not work. But there's more to it : when I start it in a console
in background (with &) menubar and scrollbar don't appear and when I
start it without & they show up. And this happens independent of the
user (root as well as my own user). In the autoexec file I start it with &
though...
> running, I can't seem to recall; do you have all the security patches for
I do use Debian Linux. I'm not sure what distr. version it is, but
Linux kernel version is 2.0.29. Afterstep version is 1.4.5.55.
> it - more than likely has nothing to do with this, but my X-Server goes
> through a wrapper which would drop uid 0 privileges before calling Eterm.
>
> > Thanks for all your help !!
>
> Gotta love the Linux spirit of life, eh?
Sure do !!
Bart.