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From: dave@xll.AUstin.ibm.COM (David Erb)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Subject: IBM aixterm and icccm compliance
Message-ID: <8908052113.AA13136@xll.austin.ibm.com>
Date: 5 Aug 89 21:13:36 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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Ref: Jamie Watson on Fri, 4 Aug 89 16:21:01 GMT

>  There have been a couple of discussions in comp.windows.x about icccm
>  compliance.  It certainly will be nice if/when IBM brings their release
>  of X for the RT into compliance.  One specific example is their xterm,
>  which they call aixterm, which doesn't set many of the hints that icccm
>  compliant window managers want or need.  I'm really sick of "No Name"
>  in my title bars...
>
>  It's kind of sad, really.  IBM was one of the first to ship an R3 based
>  product.  Perhaps they were the very first of the "major vendors".  But
>  they have these couple of stupid R2-isms hanging over, which they have
>  claimed repeatedly are there for "backward compatibility".  Too bad.


This change to IBM's aixterm was added on an X-Windows update last January.
IBM's aixterm now checks to see if aixwm is running.  If not, aixterm
will behave as an ICCCM window manager expects--such as setting its
window name, not creating its own title bar, and removing all intelligence
from its icons.

David Erb
IBM AIX X-Windows