I remember seeing that there was a bug in either fb or shadow, or something along those lines, that was causing a problem with xeyes on all XFree86 platforms. Alas, searching the mail archives of XFree86 didn't turn up what I remembered seeing.
Hmm... The next build of xeyes will probably work :) Harold > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Suhaib > Siddiqi > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:22 AM > To: 'Alexander Gottwald' > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: xeyes.exe > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alexander Gottwald > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:20 AM > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: RE: xeyes.exe > > > > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote: > > > > > Can you post what were the exact problems with xeyes.exe? It could > > > have been simply dll issues... look for ncurses dlls > > messages in mail > > > archive. > > > > curses for xeyes? > > > > > a simple note xeyes.exe which is comes with orginal > > binaries did not > > > work... IS NOT A GOOD ANSWER OR A VLAID REASON TO ASSUME > > PROBLEMS WITH > > > XEYES.EXE... > > > > Please calm down. I guess it's the problem with the garbled > > pupils. And > > the problem went away on recompiling. So there is no need > > getting angry! > > > > > OK :-) I was not angry, sorry :-) Basically I was pointing out post > details when something does not work... > > Suhaib > > > > > > > > > The xeyes program that comes with the xfree binary downloads > > > > appears to be broken. > > > > > > > > I have downloaded the source via cvs, recompiled xeyes, and > > > > it now works fine. > > > > > > > > Who should update the binary distribution? > > > > > > > > If anyone wants the executable, email me for it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 > > phone: +49 3725 349 80 80 mobile: +49 172 7854017 > >
