Re: XEmacs hangs on opening PopUp

Not my area of expertise, just offering a suggestion. |--==> "TS" == Thomas Steffen <t.steffen(a)tu-harburg.de&gt; writes: TS> This bug is triggered by Gnus 5.8.8 and BBDB, but since XEmacs hangs, TS> I suspect a bug in the C code. I think it might be a problem with your Athena widgets. Can you re-compile using different dialog widgets, say 'lucid' for example? (--with-dialogs=lucid). TS> Whenever I open a group in Gnus using the mouse, and the first poster TS> uses a different name than known to BBDB, a pop-up window should TS> appear asking whether to change the name. This window appears only TS> partially (button and boxes there, all text missing), and then XEmacs TS> hangs. TS> My system is a recent Debian Woody on i386, and I use xemacs21-nomule TS> on XFree86 V4.1.0.1-9. I'm not seeing this on GNU/Linux 2.4.17 in either XEmacs 21.4.6 (non-Mule) or XEmacs 21.5.3 (Mule). TS> System Info to help track down your bug: TS> --------------------------------------- [...] TS> Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: TS> - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw TS> - Athena library to link: Xaw TS> Using Lucid menubars. TS> Using Lucid scrollbars. TS> Using Athena dialog boxes. TS> Using Athena native widgets. Similar to what I'm using except I use: ,---- | - Athena headers location: X11/neXtaw | - Athena library to link: neXtaw `---- -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|