pulldown menu periodically hangs application on openwindows has anyone found a fix for the following problem client software sunos x r server hardware sun ipc server software sunos open windows w patch a motif application will periodically hang when run against the openwindows server xnews the pulldown is displayed but then no button actions have any effect sometimes pressing return will unstick the application but not usually it looks like the pulldown is grabbing the focus and never letting go other windows on the display continue to get updated so the server isn t hanging if i log in from another terminal and kill the motif application then everything gets back to normal the same application when run against other x servers including mit x r xsun decwindows tektronix x terminal has no problems this is obviously a openwindows problem but i need a work around since most of our customers are openwindows users i have tried the following things installing the latest version of the openwindows server patch using mwm version instead of olwm applying the patch specified in the motif faq question this had the effect of disabling the point and click method of menu interaction as opposed to the click and drag method and screwing up the menu mnemonics keys it did seem to help but i was still able to get the application to hang repeat by this is an intermittent problem so you ll have to try several times click and release on a menu heading pulldown menu will pop up click and release on a menu item repeat until application hangs any help would be appreciated thanks in advance skip koppenhaver skip eco twg com
