Is anyone here still running Xorg-server version 1.7.5, which was released in 2010? If not, it's time to remove a bad workaround in Xastir that was stuck in to deal with that single buggy version of X server.
Back around the end of 2010, xorg-server version 1.7.5 got released and was adopted as the default in some distros. This version had a motif-crippling bug that caused Xastir (and all other Motif programs) to become unusable when the contextual menu was pulled up --- the cursor would become trapped in the Xastir window, and could only be released by killing Xastir from another screen (remote login or virtual terminal). Xastir was patched to deal with this, but there was an unpleasant side-effect: the contextual menus no longer stay up when you click the right button, you have to hold the right button down now. The bug in Xorg-server was fixed long ago, but the workaround remains in Xastir. Unfortunately, this is not a work-around that can be tested at configure time and disabled --- the bug is in the X server, not the client, and one cannot know at compile time whether Xastir will be used with an X server that has the bug. Thus we're all stuck with the workaround, even if we're not using an X server that has that bug. So, does anyone still have Xorg 1.7.5 installed on the systems they use for Xastir? This is the only version of X that ever had the problem, and if folks are no longer stuck with the broken server, we should unbreak Xastir so that contextual menus go back to working the way they did before xorg-server 1.7.5 was released. There's talk of having a 2.0.2 release soon (we haven't had a formal release since 2010), and this would be a good thing to fix before then. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
