Tk entry box is broken

[Daniel O'Connor]

For the record..
I installed XQuartz 2.7.10 and it worked so I reinstalled 2.7.11 and that worked too so I have no idea!


> On 3 Sep 2018, at 18:17, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
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>> On 3 Sep 2018, at 14:36, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>> We use Tcl/Tk on FreeBSD for various applications and I've started modernising our stack (from Tcl 8.4) and I am seeing a very weird issue where Tk entry boxes only accept the character 'a'(!) but only when using XQuartz(!!). ie on the local console it works fine, but if I SSH in from my laptop the odd issue happens.
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>> This works fine on our existing 9.x era stuff using Tcl/Tk 8.4. I tried Tk 8.5, 8.6 and 8.7 with the same result.
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> I tried this on a Linux (Ubuntu) VM and it behaves the same so I guess it's possibly an XQuartz bug, although if anyone has some ideas I'd be most grateful..
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> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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--
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum