aterm causes hourglass on load?

Bryan Alves fryguy at fryguy.dynamixservers.com
Mon May 3 17:10:53 EDT 2004


	Just switched over to Openbox 3.2 as my window manager.  I am using
Debian Testing as my distro, and I start X by using the 'startx' command
from cli, and running things from ~/.xinitrc, which currently contains
only 2 commands:

gnome-panel &
openbox

	My problem is that when doing this, aterm (and only aterm) version
0.4.2 causes an hourglass to appear for a period of approximately 30
seconds when executed, and then the hourglass disappears. During this
time, functionality is limited (I can't click on the close button for
the window for example), and the hourglass is present in the following
areas:

desktop
openbox's titlebar for aterm
the titlebars and "working areas" for every other application with the
following 2 exceptions:

-Not present in xmms at all
-Not present in the "working area" for Firefox (though it is present in
it's titlebar).  

	Functionality for other programs is still present as far as I can
tell.  This is just quite annoying, and doesn't happen with other window
managers I've tried (sawfish, fluxbox, metacity, kahakai).  This happens
when I launch aterm with 0 arguments, or when I launch it with my usual
arguments (change font, transparency, shading, title the window, etc). 
It doesn't happen at all in xterm or Eterm.  I'm not really willing to
switch over to Eterm since aterm is a more efficient application
memory-wise.

Any ideas on what is causing aterm to generate an hourglass like this,
and possible solutions to the problem (while still using openbox 3.2 and
aterm)?




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