rxvt hangs upon resize...

rxvt hangs upon resize...

[Rui Carmo]

Hello,

I have been experiencing very frequent rxvt hangs when resizing windows 
ever since I installed 1.3.15 (or close enough as to make no difference, 
although the issue seems to be related).

Upon resizing the main window, the rxvt child windows seem to take an 
indordinate amount of time handling the WM_RESIZE events (I am running 
cygwin under Windows XP SP1, and windows resize immediatly upon dragging 
an edge), hogging my CPU to the extent where it is actually preferrable 
to reboot the machine.

I cannot do anything at all with the machine when rxvt flies off the 
handle - cannot close the window, invoke the Task Manager with 
Ctrl-Alt-Del, or even ssh into it an issue a "kill" command. And I am 
sure that rxvt is causing this, since I actually had Task Manager up and 
running at one point and (after a good 30s of CPU torture) I saw an rxvt 
instance with over 90% CPU load.

(Debugging this with the likes of Spy++ is also impossible, since rxvt 
seems to never let go of the CPU)

A temporary fix for extended coding sessions is to just launch X11 
(where I have no problems whatsoever running rxvt under Windowmaker), 
but shuffling two sets of virtual desktops is awful.

Is this a known problem? I seem to recall seeing something on it on the 
mailing list archives before, but I cannot find it now.

Rui Carmo




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