Re: Re: X-FrontEnd crashes upon certain keystrokes
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- Subject: [mg2735] Re: [mg2678] Re: X-FrontEnd crashes upon certain keystrokes
- From: Elias Saab <mathes at esaab.math.missouri.edu>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 19:16:02 -0500
Yes we had a lot of trouble with the Mathematica Front End on the SGI. We made some progress by working closely with Victoria Bush from WRI. Wolfram has to do a lot more to have a X- front end that is similiar to the Mac Front End. Elias Saab On Tue, 5 Dec 1995, Mario Garcia wrote: > Scott Herod wrote: > > > > ... > > > > It doesn't seem to matter what the kernal is doing because once the > > frontend crashes, the abort can be reproduced by merely reopening the > > notebook and inserting the carrage return in the appropriate cell. > > The kernal is never started. > > > > Has anyone else had trouble with the frontend distributed with the > > Sparc or SGI version 2.2.3 of mathematica? > > > > Scott Herod > > I've had many problems on SGI and HP systems running the X front end. > It seems that the X front end is buggy in general and crashes randomly. > I have noticed that cutting and pasting are particularly troublesome > and cause more crashes than other kinds of operations. > > It also has some usability problems. For example on the Mac front end, > when you select some text and then press the arrow key the text is > simply deselected. On the X front end if you have some selected text > and you press one of the arrow keys the selected text is deleted!! > > On the other hand I must say that I'm glad there is a front end > available on UNIX workstations. Many times I take work from the > HP at work to my Mac at home with no problems. Hopefully most of > these bugs I mentioned will be fixed on the next release. > > -- > Mario L. Garcia mlg at mail.utexas.edu > The University of Texas at Austin (512)835-3674 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >