[CentOS] updating to 6.4 broke olvwm/openwin

On 03/21/2013 04:06 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
> This morning a handful of workstations got upgraded from 6.3 to 6.4 and 
> things seemed to be functional, until we tried to log in to one of our 
> instrument accounts that for various reasons uses olvwm/openwin as the 
> desktop (and no, I don't have the option of changing that at this time). 
> The desktop appears to load correctly, and mouse-focus and clicking 
> appears to work, but the .openwin-menu entries no longer function other 
> than clicking "exit" to log out of the session. I've tried reinstalling 
> xview and xview-client rpms, but that doesn't resolve it. I don't think 
> it's an issue with the user account, as the underlying commands work 
> when I su and execute them in an xterm. I was also able to reproduce the 
> problem on three separate computers.
>
> I don't usually have to deal with these desktop issues so I'm hella 
> rusty when it comes to debugging them. Does anyone have any tidbits to 
> point me in the right direction to fix this? (Hopefully soon, since we 
> are supposed to use this account for observations tonight)

There is a newer version of xorg-x11-server with 6.4 ... maybe you need
to recompile your window manager with the newer devel files.

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