Bug#509102: xterm does not respond to Editres requests
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 13:59:57 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> XTerm, and some other Xt applications on my system, do not respond to
> Editres requests.
>
> To check if editres(1) works I connected to a remote
> host with the ssh(1) with X11 forwarding turned on. I started xterm (v.224)
> and asked it with locally running editres(1). I received expected answer.
>
> Then I copied the xterm(1) binary (32bit x86) from the remote host and launched it
> locally. It replied correctly.
>
> I also tried running xterm from Debian testing xterm_235-1_i386.deb package.
> It works fine.
>
> Editres (64bit) responds to its question correctly provided it asks
> for its own window. Asking for another process's window does not work.
>
> This is probably not an xterm(1) bug but rather one of X11 libs
> is broken but frankly speaking I have no blind ide which one this could be.
> libXmu seems to be the first in the line because it contains some "Editres"
> strings.
Hi,
this sounds like the same issue as bug#521887. Any chance you could
test that applying the patch at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXmu/patch/?id=88bd2d387fbb068339b65506331136085082def6
fixes things for you?
Cheers,
Julien
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