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From: lrb1000@cus.cam.ac.uk (Lewis Brown)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD edo: shared memory corrupt
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In article <QAGIBXJQ@math.fu-berlin.de> rickrac@knock1.mgh.harvard.edu (Jimmy Rearick) writes:

>One other question while I'm here,  I am also running X windows on this 
>same system.  Since I switched to FreeBSD the scroll bar on my Xterm doesn't
>work.  It shows up but when I move the mouse over to scroll the scroll handle
>disappears.  The right and left buttons work but I can't grab the handle to 
>scroll.  It also happens when I am using Xman.  Thanks for your help.

Which version of XFree are you using?  I would guess it's 1.2 and you're
running into the poor npx emulation problem.  Get version 1.3, and you
may find your problems are solved.

Regards,
Lewis.