[Xastir] Is there anyone left running Xorg server 1.7.5?

[David A Aitcheson]

Tom,

What if in the bootstrap or configure script a test for "Xorg==1.7.5"
was done and if true an "error&exit" was generated with a message to
upgrade xorg in order to continue?  Else continue.

I am running Xorg 1:7.6+12ubuntu1 here so I am in the clear.

73
Dave
KB3EFS


On 09/19/2012 12:42 PM, Tom Russo wrote:
> Is anyone here still running Xorg-server version 1.7.5, which was released
> in 2010?  If not, it's time to remove a bad workaround in Xastir that was stuck
> in to deal with that single buggy version of X server.
>
> Back around the end of 2010, xorg-server version 1.7.5 got released and was
> adopted as the default in some distros.  This version had a motif-crippling
> bug that caused Xastir (and all other Motif programs) to become unusable
> when the contextual menu was pulled up --- the cursor would become trapped
> in the Xastir window, and could only be released by killing Xastir from 
> another screen (remote login or virtual terminal).  Xastir was patched to deal
> with this, but there was an unpleasant side-effect: the contextual menus no
> longer stay up when you click the right button, you have to hold the right
> button down now.
>
> The bug in Xorg-server was fixed long ago, but the workaround remains in 
> Xastir.  Unfortunately, this is not a work-around that can be tested at
> configure time and disabled --- the bug is in the X server, not the client, and
> one cannot know at compile time whether Xastir will be used with an X server
> that has the bug.  Thus we're all stuck with the workaround, even if we're
> not using an X server that has that bug.
>
> So, does anyone still have Xorg 1.7.5 installed on the systems they use for
> Xastir?  This is the only version of X that ever had the problem, and if
> folks are no longer stuck with the broken server, we should unbreak Xastir
> so that contextual menus go back to working the way they did before xorg-server
> 1.7.5 was released.
>
> There's talk of having a 2.0.2 release soon (we haven't had a formal release
> since 2010), and this would be a good thing to fix before then.
>

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