Installed Nedit on FC 6

[Joor Loohuis]

Op donderdag 11-01-2007 om 10:02 uur [tijdzone -0800], schreef Chris
Walker:
> Scott Tringali wrote:
> > John Penk wrote:
> >
> >> libXp is indeed in a separate RPM, but why not just use the Fedora 
> >> rpm for nedit?
> >
> > Fedora's RPM probably uses LessTif these days.  There is a tradeoff in 
> > stability vs. philosophy, so pick which you like better.
> Yes, Fedora recently forced a a switch to lesstif, removing the 
> openmotif I was using when I upgraded.  Now I'm getting annoying messages:
> 
>     XtUngrabButton(tabBar,3,0)
>     Attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab
> 
> when I exit nedit.  I tried downloading the binary from nedit.org which 
> statically links against Motif and the problem seems to be fixed, 
> although I'm not entirely convinced it won't reappear because I thought 
> I had it fixed before only to have it reappear.

FYI: when I upgraded some workstations to FC6, I tried the bundled
version of NEdit. It had several problems that made it next to unusable
for me. The static binaries from nedit.org however work as can be
expected. I suggest you at least give them a shot.

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