Re: PDP++ and Redhat 7.0

["Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@grey.colorado.edu>]

Karl W Knight <karl@gac.edu> writes:
> (1) After opening xor.proj.gz, all the windows become visible for a
>     moment, and then automatically iconify.  (The manual says that the
>     root window should move to the right and the Project and NetView
>     windows become visible and the others iconify, whereas all windows
>     in fact iconify.)
> 
> (2) After de-iconifying the root window, they all become visible.  At
>     this point if I try to iconify any of the windows, then they all
>     iconify.  Actually, if I tried to iconify the project window, I
>     can't.

this sounds like some kind of window manager problem -- I have briefly
tested pdp++ under KDE and it worked ok for me, but does anyone else
out there have this experience?  perhaps there is some kind of
configuration setting somewhere?

> (3) Sometimes when I click on a menu in one of the windows, it will
>     persist even if I try to close it, and even if I move to another
>     virtual desktop (I am using the KDE window manager), it will
>     remain visibleon that other desktop.

this is a known "feature" -- tear off menus if you like.  the trick is
to try to drag the mouse accross the menu.  if this doesn't work,
clicking on another menu in the same group might help..

> (4) In some cases, I have found that the when I went to another
>     virtual desktop while, for example, a training process is running,
>     the process would stop.  In some of these cases, I needed to
>     restart bp in order to get the process running.

weird!

				- Randy