Athena Widget Set: *** You must call a toolkit initialization function before invoking any other toolkit routines (besides locale setting, above). XtAppInitialize opens the X server connection, parses the command line, and creates an initial widget that will serve as the root of a tree of widgets created by this application. *** X Toolkit Intrinsics: *** XtOpenApplication is a new convenience procedure to initialize the toolkit, create an application context, open an X display connection, and create the root of the widget instance tree. It is identical to the interface it replaces, XtAppInitialize, in all respects except that it takes an additional argument specifying the widget class of the root shell to create. This interface is now the recommended one so that clients may easily become session participants. The old convenience procedures appear in the compatibility section. ***
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not obviously still valid. Please reopen this bug or file a new report if you continue to experience issues with current releases.
Fixed in git master: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxaw/commit/2b9a7f2c89ebaf411e23af40dd18ad84d48019e8 Thanks for pointing this out.
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