RE: xeyes.exe

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Suhaib
> Siddiqi
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:22 AM
> To: 'Alexander Gottwald'
> Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> Subject: RE: xeyes.exe
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Gottwald
> > [mailto:alexander.gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de]
> > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:20 AM
> > Cc: 'cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com'
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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