From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4507 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2010 20:48:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 4497 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jun 2010 20:48:42 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from dc-8.his.net (HELO smtp304.his.com) (108.56.65.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:48:38 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97CDE244176; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:48:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Score: 1.197 Received: from smtp304.his.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp304.his.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XUSEL8kMC5qP; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:48:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail101.his.com (dc-7.his.net [108.56.65.7]) by smtp304.his.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620AE244118; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:48:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail101.his.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail101.his.com (8.14.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o5UKmNTu033908 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:48:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Received: from localhost (dickey@localhost) by mail101.his.com (8.14.3/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o5UKmNnj033904; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:48:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dickey@his.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:48:00 -0000 From: Thomas Dickey To: webmaster@donsbox.com, cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: XTerm scrollbar issue In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20100630164554.H26408@mail101.his.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-06/txt/msg00077.txt.bz2 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. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/