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From: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Joining Open Windows 2.0 and MIT X.
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Date: 16 Aug 90 04:05:45 GMT
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Hello,

We have had the X11R4 from expo installed on our Sun systems and have been
keeping them current with all of the patches.

We have recently received Open Windows 2.0 from Sun.  It includes a number
of very nice tools.

Now I am faced with the problem of integrating MIT X and Open Windows and
I'm wondering what others are doing about this.

Here are some of the questions I have.  Any and all suggestions would be
most gratefully accepted.

1.  Is it reasonable to copy (or link) the libraries in /usr/lib to the
    lib directory in OPENWINHOME?  Presumably the versions I have with
    the latest MIT patches are newer and better than the ones that came
    with OW 2.0.  And presumably as new fixes come out of MIT they will
    continue to improve.  I've tried these links (in a personal copy of
    OW 2.0 on my workstation) and this seems to work .  In fact, it prevents
    many of our existing X applications from complaining about library
    versions (I can keep LD_LIBRARY_PATH defined without any conflicts).
    Are there any hidden gotchas?
    
2.  Assuming that there is no desire to run sunview or news applications
    would it be reasonable/better/faster to run the X server in /usr/bin/X11
    instead of xnews?  The xnews program is more than twice the size of the
    Xsun executable and presumably does a lot of work to allow for NeWS and
    sunview.  Again, I have made this change personally and it seems to 
    work fine.  I have not been able to make any real performance evaluations
    though.  Note that I'm not talking in this case about replacing xnews
    (since some of our users presumably want sunview and or NeWS apps).
    Rather, I have made a link to /usr/bin/X11/Xsun and run that with the
    -server flag.
    
3.  Are the libraries and such shipped with OW 2.0 identical to those which
    will presumably reappear on expo?  Assuming that I compile the expo
    sources (without deleting my root directory :-) would it be reasonable
    to replace the libraries in the Sun release with the newer (and better?)
    ones?
    
4.  Are there any other suggestions for improving the integration of MIT X
    and OW 2.0?
    
Thanks in advance.
--Frank
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Frank W. Peters        Systems Programmer     Computing Center & Services
fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu  Peters@MsState.Bitnet  (601)325-2942
"I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ
--
Frank W. Peters        Systems Programmer     Computing Center & Services
fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu  Peters@MsState.Bitnet  (601)325-2942
"I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ