Dear Sun Managers,
I recently asked if others had seen frequent "hangs" of the OpenWindows 3.1
server when using non-DeskSet applications and if anyone had solutions or
work-arounds.
Based on Lew Yobs' replies and further investigation, it appears that the
input focus mode in "olwm" causes the problem: I normally run in
"click-to-focus" mode, but all the applications which tickled the problem
try to use "focus-follows-mouse".
I have currently switched to "focus-follows-mouse" mode (a subset of Lew's
solution below) and have not seen the problem again so far... If it recurs, I
will set the remaining resources Lew recommends.
More detailed responses follow.
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Lee Quin offered the following possibilities for "backing out" of the problem:
Some things to try:
* Hit L1 when the server seems hung
* If you can log in remotely, try
DISPLAY=hungsys:0 psh -i
unblockinputqueue
if you get an error from psh, try instead
DISPLAY=klklklk:0 psh
/X11 3 0 findpackage beginpackage
inblockinputqueue
That's a way of geting out of the situation; the real question is
how to avoid it in the first place, and I don't know the answer.
Keep a /usr/bin/shelltool iconified, if you have it -- it's the
SunView equivalent of cmdtool -- and when the server hangs,
you can generally use that window to run the psh script.
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Lew Yobs offered the following solution/work-around:
Try setting these in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file:
OpenWindows.FocusLenience: True
OpenWindows.ServerGrabs: False
OpenWindows.SetInput: followmouse
olwm.WindowCacheSize: 0
Then execute the command:
% xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
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Thanks to the following people for responding:
David Robinson (drtr@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk)
Liam Quin (lee@sq.com)
Ed Keizer (keie@cs.vu.nl)
Patrick O'Callaghan (poc@usb.ve)
Michael G. Harrington (mgh@bihobl2.bih.harvard.edu)
Barry Moyer (barrym@oasys.sa-htn.valmet.com)
Andy Feldt (feldt@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu)
Al Marti (marti@spot.Colorado.EDU)
Lew Yobs (Lew.Yobs@Corp.Sun.COM)
--Greg Jumper TRW Signal Processing Facility jumper@spf.trw.com
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