From: dsb@world.std.com (David Boyce) Subject: Re: Seyon bug: freezes X server Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1993 20:44:42 GMT
In article <1993Feb5.153632.5405@cc.umontreal.ca> duperval@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Duperval Laurent) writes:
>Hi all,
>
>Maybe someone can help me with this one. I compiled seyon 1.91 in
>/usr/src/seyon. When I run it from that directory, everything goes fine. But
>if I install it (make install) and run it from another directory, I lose
>control of the mouse or the X server freezes and I have to kill it. I thought
>maybe stripping was the problem but the unstripped version has the same
>behavior. I changed my X server (I had Xfree1.1 from tsx and replaced it with
>the SL:S version) but still no dice.
>
>BTW, the lockup happens as soon as the control panel comes up. After that,
>all movement I make with the mouse sends a bunch of garbage characters to the
>seyon window. Does anyone know what's going on?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>--
>Laurent Duperval, B. Sc. | The opinions expressed herein are my own and
> | do not represent those of this establishment
>duperval@ere.umontreal.ca | That's because they don't have enough $$$
>duperval@jsp.umontreal.ca | to afford them. Noone does.
A guess: seyon looks for its startup (config) files first in the
current directory, then in the DIRECTORY called $HOME/.seyon.
If you had garbage in $HOME/.seyon, then something like this could happen
if you were in any directory outside of /usr/src/seyon, which has
sample scripts in it. In fact as I recall an early version of seyon
used a FILE called $HOME/.seyon, which could really lead to confusion.
David Boyce
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