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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To: webmaster@donsbox.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: XTerm scrollbar issue
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100630164554.H26408@mail101.his.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinPTm7R9ywXrLqfUaGxEHOoEfbrsbcBHFGVuJz3@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, webmaster wrote:
> All releases of xterm newer that 229 (i.e. since June '08) have a
> broken scrollbar. It never bothered me enough to post a message, but
> I've been setting up some new systems and have found it annoying to
> dig up xterm-229 and manually install it.
>
> These images show what the scrollbar used to look like (and what it
> still looks like in all recent Linux distributions, even with latest
> xterm builds):
Problems like that shown with the scrollbar are usually a compile-time
mismatch on floating-point. There's a configure option for xterm to
address this (--enable-narrowproto or --disable-narrowproto), since
the mismatch is not detectable via automatic checks.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-30 20:48 UTC|newest]
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2010-06-30 17:14 webmaster
2010-06-30 20:48 ` Thomas Dickey [this message]
2010-07-01 22:19 ` Thomas Dickey
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