#: 16817 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    30-Oct-92  09:38:53
Sb: #16815-#More Desktop Stuff
Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)

Mike,

So the version I have now looks for the environment variable 'SHELL'?  Good!
Yes, I remember about the 03 buffer being used for the special characters you
have in Desktop.  That's why I only replace the 01 and 02 fonts.  Strange that
it should only happen when it forks a shell.  Also, when I do fork a shell into
another window, a strange character appears in the lower right of the screen. 
It goes away when the screen is cleared though.  Just remembered, if I fork a
shell on the Desktop window, it uses the correct (replacement) font.

Oh, what about this.  If I'm in a directory and I make a new file there with
the editor or something, I have to move out of the dir and then come back in
before the file shows up.  Also, why have a parameter in the AIF for the border
color if dwset ignores it?  It would be nice if dwset set the border so we
arn't stuck with black all the time.  Bummer.  Lost my cursor last night
too.....no pointer, no click-right-button-to-move-through-windows, dead.  Can't
remember how it happened though.  Also, if I fork an application in a new
window, then go back to Desktop and list a file so that the overlay is open,
then go back to the application on the other window and exit it, it remains
stuck in memory the majority of the time. Steve Wegert found you have to go and
deiniz that window to get it to go away.  Speaking of that, I startup my MM/1
with only the term window active, then start Desktop in it.  When I fork an
application into another window, it starts at /w4, not /w1 as you would expect.
Why?  Another bug in windio?  Lots of things to take care of here it looks
like.

Mark

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