no display problem

[jerry metzger]

I just found electric-6.02, and decided to try it on my Linux
Mandrake 7.1, Pentium II machine (actually two of those).

The behavior is the same for both machines. 

In a subdirectory of my home directory (as ordinary user)
I do the following (in an X windows terminal screen)

1)  I run ./configure
2)  I modify the generated Makefile as shown below


############################################### X WIDGET SELECTION ############
##### If using Motif/Lesstif widgets, uncomment the next two lines
# TIFFLAGS = -DUSETIF
# XTLIBS = -lXm -lXmu -lXt

##### If using Athena widgets, uncomment the next line
XTLIBS = -lXaw -lXmu -lXt
###############################################################################

to indicate I have the Athena widgets installed.

3) I run make

make terminates normally, and I find the electric executable in the build
directory as promised.

4) I type ./electric in an X windows  terminal screen expecting the
electric display to appear, but I see nothing, not even any error messages
such as "cannot open display",  "cannot find ...", or whatever.

 The README says

"Once compiled, Electric will run properly from the directory where it was
built".

but this does not seem to be happening for me."quit" in the terminal
screen has no effect, and only "^C" kills the process from the keyboard. 

5)  After starting electric, I run top, and it tells me that electric is
running (in fact using 50% of the CPU cycles).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Jerry Metzger