xmaxima and XFree 4.2



James Amundson ÐÉÛÅÔ:
> On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:55, Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> 
>>Andreas J Guelzow ?????:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>When running xmaxima (of maxima 5.9.0) under XFree 4.2 the context menu 
>>>in plots doesn't work for me (it appears but clicks on the menu item 
>>>cause the menu to disappear without action).
>>
>>I confirm.  Absolutely the same problem with pure sawfish and
>>Gnome 2 running on metacity.  On KDE and IceWM plot menu works fine
>>(XFree 4.2.1,  ALT Linux).
> 
> 
> Fascinating. I am certain that I was seeing the same problem as Andreas.
> However, I am unable to reproduce the problem right now. I *just*
> switched from Gnome/Sawfish to KDE, so it looks like there is a bad
> interaction between the plotting program and some window managers.
> 
> The Xmaxima menus themselves exhibited similar problems until Mike
> changed them to be standard Tk menus. Please file a bug report.
> 
I tried maxima plot on several other WM and the bottom line is:

Good: KDE, WindowMaker, AfterStep, IceWM, Enlightement, BlackBox, FVWM 2

Bad: sawfish, metacity (Gnome 2), Xfce

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