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[sindi keesan <keesan2 AT cyberspace.org>]

I heard back from the author of flwriter - here is his letter and my
answer.  


To: Jean-Marc Lienher <oksid AT bluewin.ch>
Subject: Re: flwriter crashes and lags


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Jean-Marc Lienher wrote:

> keesan AT cyberspace.org a écrit :
> > 
> > I am using a binary of flwriter compiled for Basiclinux 2.0 (a branch of
> > Slackware 7.1).
> 
> First of all, thank you for your bug report.
> 
> But it's hard for me to know where the problem is.
> It looks like your are using flwriter with a different shared
> library version than the one used to compile it.
> 
> The best thing that you can do is to recompile it using the current
> sources.

The author of Basiclinux compiled flwriter very recently, and specifically
for Slackware 7.1, and I used the libraries from Slackware 7.1.  I will
forward your mail to him.  He would like to make flwriter work with
Basiclinux. 

 
> Sorry, I can't help you much more, because I don't know how flwriter 
> was compiled.


 
> > If I try to type right away the first word often does not appear, then
> > after I hit an Enter key the following words appear (this problem is not
> > all that reproducible) but there is a couple seconds lag between typing
> > and seeing what I type. (I can type five words before the first appears).
> > 
> 
> This can be caused by a large Unicode font, the X server must load it
> before it can display it. Try to use another font.

I am a beginner.  I have not even used X until two days ago.  I have not
loaded any fonts, I just left things as defaults.  I am using a 640x480
resolution and 75-dpi fonts. 

This problem of the lag (and I think also of the segmentation faults) goes
away as soon as I click on File Edit Tool or Help - then everything goes
at normal speed.    There are two kinds of lag - one when I type Alt-F or
Alt-T to access the menu (I need to wait about two seconds before I can
see the menu) and one when I type text.  After I click on the menu both of
these lag problems go away, and I think it also no longer crashes. 

It does not help to click on the toolbar, just the menu.  When I click on
the menu, the submenu appears immediately (no lag) and after that the
submenu also appears immediately when I type Alt-F or Alt-T.

 
> > mouse as little as possible and would also appreciate if you could add to
> > the menus a way to center, right align, bold, underline and italic, and
> > also change font size.  I hate having to take my hand off the keyboard in
> > the middle of a sentence just to chase down the mouse.
> > 
> Ok, I will add this feature in the next release

Many thanks.

> 
> > Apart from that it is a great program.  I have not found any documentation
> > for it yet but hope to get the Cyrillic part working.  
> 
> Yes, documentation is not my best point :-)


> You should simply select a font that can display Cyrillic characters.
> (After having setup your keyboard and your LANG environnemental
>  variable).

I will ask how to do this.  

> 
> .
> Regards,
>       Jean-Marc
> 
> 
> -- 
> http://www.oksid.ch
> 

Sindi Keesan