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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DECWindows and twm
Keywords: DECwindows X twm pmax DECstation
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Date: 21 Jul 89 01:58:39 GMT
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In-reply-to: te07@edrc.cmu.edu (Thomas Epperly)

In article <5586@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, te07@edrc (Thomas Epperly) writes:
>I have a DECstation 3100 running DECwindows(Ultrix Worksystem Software 2.0
>I haven't gotten the patch yet), and I would like to replace dxwm with twm
>or awm.  After some work I got both twm and awm to compile, but neither
>works correctly.  They both have trouble with the Session manager window.
>awm complains "Unkown property 75".  The symptoms are kind of hard to
>describe, but I will try.  It is like the Session manager's window becomes
>part of the background.  If I move the Session manager window it moves
>away, but a copy remains where it used to be.  This copy cannot be
>selected, moved, or iconified.  This happens with both twm and awm.
>

I'm running twm on a Decstation 3100 without any problem, but am not
using the session manager.  I am using xdm, which (sortof) qualifies
as a session manager I guess.  I haven't had any problems with it.
Let me know if you want more info.
g.
George Hartzell			                  (303) 492-4535
 MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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