Request for testing new x5250

Hi everyone,

I've encountered a problem with the latest release of x5250 and I'm trying to understand it better. I'm hoping some folks on the list can do a few tests of their own and give me some feedback.

I'm running X desktops on remote machines. The remotes run "X -query <servername>" to get a remote xdm session from <servername>. That means that all remotes are simply displaying a desktop that is actually running on the server. When I use a large font, in some desktop environments I have problems with x5250 not completely redrawing the window when the font size changes. This is easily seen by running x5250 like this (these fonts may not be on every system):

x5250 -fn -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso8859-1 -fn132 -adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1 <iserieshost>

When viewing something that displays in 132 columns (like a spooled file or a source member in SEU) some areas of the x5250 window are not correctly cleared, and the same thing happens when switching back to an 80 column screen. However, on my systems I can only make this happen with large fonts and using the KDE4 desktop environment. What I would like to know is, does this problem happen to other people? Is this something specific to KDE4? If people on this list could download and test the new x5250 and report back I would really appreciate it.

Get x5250 at:

http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/x5250

James Rich

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