Some AfterStep questions and bugs?
Timothy Dunnington (timbert@hotmail.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:50:24 PDT
I've been an Afterstep user for a while now. 1.4.0 worked well, and
last week I downloaded 1.4.5 and installed it. I like it primarily
because the window's don't autoraise after your mouse pointer is on it
for a few seconds (a feature I never could figure out how to turn off in
1.4.0) But 1.4.5 has some other little quirks:
1. With the default color-scheme, there is a brown border around all of
the window dressings. I switched to pure next colors, and there is a
red, or sometimes grey, border around the dressings. These look wierd
and they weren't there in 1.4.0
2. Layering icons in wharf causes X errors and wharf doesn't load.
3. Moving windows around the screen, particularly Netscape, causes the
background to sometimes become messy...it was clean in 1.4.0.
4. If you "roll-up" a window, change to another virtual desktop, and
come back, the title bar for the window is gone. You can only get it
back by right-clicking on the program bar button for that program.
5. The Pixmap path and Icon path in base.xxx files have no effect on
the wharf config file. I have to use the entire pathname for icons on
the wharf bar.
I am using RedHat 4.1, kernel 2.0.27 (I tried to upgrade the kernel to
2.0.35, but it caused lots of problems).
Also one question: I would like to be able to see the messages produced
by executing wharf programs or startmenu programs. If I load X and
start afterstep manually from xterm, all the output will go to that
xterm. However, if I start afterstep in a shellscript, the output goes
to the root shell, which is not displayed. How can I redirect that
output to a particular xterm so I can see what happens when things fail?
Thanks,
Tim
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