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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: netscape and freebsd (scrolling problem)
Date: 2 Jan 1997 14:31:52 GMT
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Allen Canning <canning@psa.pencom.com> wrote:

> > has anyone else experienced any problems with the bsd netscape not 
> > scrolling properly with freebsd 2.1.0, 2.1.5 or 2.1.6

> Yes, the same thing happens to me...If anyone knows of a fix, please let
> me know.

Netcrap seems to be buggy when it comes to Xservers that provide
non-default backing store support (the -wm flag to the Xserver).  It
finally caused me to remove the -wm again from my server
configuration.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)