One important difference between the previously reported bug and what you report now would be that you now find this behavior also in 4.2.x, while before it only manifested itself in 4.4.0. I am not sure that taking a binary from one distribution, and plugging that into another, is a valid procedure, though. To be really sure, the old 4.2.7 sources would have to be loaded, and XBoard would have to be configured and installed from source.
If old XBoards, which previously worked, now show this pathological behavior, it would be a strong indication that the problem lies outside XBoard, and hence cannot be fixed from within it. If ancient versions do not have this problem, though, someone experiencing the problem could identify the earliest version that suffered from it, and the change that apparently triggers this could inspire a work-around. But as I don't have this problem at all, (I alsodon't have Ubuntu 11.04), that approach is not open to me, and nothing can or will be done until someone that does have the problem would be willing to help us debug it (which could be a tedious process). _______________________________________________ Bug-XBoard mailing list Bug-XBoard@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-xboard