Re: scroll bar resource? (SOLVED)
Leyon, Christopher wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I'm afraid we're reaching the limits of my knowledge on this one... I have
> not used hamm, so I don't know what its set-up was like. (Before I
> installed Slink, I was using Red Hat.)
>
> Perhaps xterm is statically linked (doubtful)? Does ldd report anything
> unusual? How is your /etc/ls.so.conf configured? Do you have other X
> libraries that might be inadvertently used instead (e.g., libc5 v. libc6
> libs)? Do other similar programs (e.g., rxvt, Eterm) exhibit the same
> behavior?
>
> I'm kind of grasping at straws here; sorry I can't be more helpful....
Your straws led to the solution Chris, Thanks ;-)
After following the trail from the ldd output, I found that my hamm
xterm had libXaw.so.6 linked to libneXtaw.so.6.1 but my slink
libXaw.so.6 was linked to libXaw95.so.6.1. I changed the link and now
have the scroll bars I want in slink. :)))
Cheers
John Carline
> --
> Chris Leyon
>
> > ----------
> > From: John[SMTP:jtc@stic.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:11 PM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: scroll bar resource? (half solved)
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > Thanks, you were right about the Xaw3d package. Once I installed it
> > several of the slink applications regained the same scroll bar look as
> > on my hamm disk. Xterm, however, remained the same. Still just a plain
> > bar with no arrows.
> >
> > Is xterm in slink different than xterm in hamm? Or did I just stumble
> > into a non-standard configuration when I first loaded linux back in
> > October?
> >
> > And all this time I thought I was using the standard scroll bars. ;-)
> > John Carline
> >
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