The system is outputting a line to the console indicating
	an 'su' has taken place. You should really run xconsole or
	one 'xterm -C' to capture this console output.

		David/absolute

   \ The only reason most people are not out to get you is that /
    \  most of them are too stupid to work out where you live. /

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, T. Sean (Theo) Schulze wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 15:11:38 -0500
> From: "T. Sean (Theo) Schulze" <tschulze@compuserve.com>
> To: Port-mac68k <PORT-MAC68K@NetBSD.ORG>
> Subject: X display tectonics
> 
> Whenever I am running X under my own account and I su to root in one of 
> the xterms, the left hand side of the screen shifts up one line.  The 
> shifted section is about as wide as my system prompt, and there is a 
> small one-line high bit of black and white at the bottom left-hand corner 
> of the screen.  All the icons and windows lying on the "fault line" get 
> shifted also, and I usually make the windows into icons or vice versa to 
> get most everything back to looking like it should.  Generally, I have to 
> do something to cause a screen redraw to make it go away completely.
> 
> I suspect what is happening is that somehow after I su, the new system 
> prompt is getting partially printed to the display.  Does anyone else 
> have this problem?  I don't see anything about this in the (April '97) 
> FAQ.  Can I do something to make this stop, or should I just live with 
> it?  I just noticed that even though xset has blanked the screen, when I 
> telneted in and su'd, the blanked screen shifted.
> 
> System Info:
> IIci running in 1.3 and the 1.3 X with 24MB RAM, 24MB swap on a Quantum 
> Maverick 540MB hard drive.  I am running X in color using the lkm and 
> color server.  I have an Apple High Resolution NUBUS board installed.  
> Kernel is GENERICSBC#56.
> 
> I don't think the system has much to do with it though, because I used to 
> have this problem with the 1.2 ditribution too.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Sean.
> 
> 
>                  T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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