> On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:53:29PM -0500, Derek J Witt wrote: > > Hi, all. I figured out a way to resolve the "parent not composite" errors > > I've been getting from the xaw packages. I tried running apt-get to > > install X from the phase2 debbies. Of course, I started getting the > > error.
> I talked to Keith Packard about this at ALS. > He says this is definitely a specification violation. It may be that > Athena can be recoded to fix it, however, as I understand it, since most > programs don't subclass the Athena widgets. and unfortunately not only anthena programms suffer, ie. netscape breaks too (try dragging a link from one netscape window to another, normaly the link would be opend in the new window but now netscape just quits.. - it doesn´t show the message, but a strace shows that it tried to display the error message) i guess the most programms which trigger XtMakeGeometry errors like gv, etc could fixed (easyly or not..) but for netscape i wouldn't hold breath :( -- Jens Hoffmann
