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From: carey@H2SUN.SPH.JHU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: vt1200 windows hang with r3 twm!
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Date: 3 Oct 90 21:42:10 GMT
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i am the unlucky user of a vt1200, telnet-hosted by a
decstation 5000 running Ultrix 4.0 with the dec
supplied decwindows for that release.

for various reasons, i prefer to run twm.  i can't persuade
the 5000 owner to go to R4.  i made the r3 twm (from
gatekeeper.dec.com) and enable foreign wms on the 1200.
twm starts up fine, but no window takes any input.
mouse-driven focus/unfocus has no real effect, although
the pointer goes through the usual transformations.

also, xlock won't work on the x-terminal.  it makes
me think there are some basic X concepts i'm missing
with regard to configuration/operation of x-terminals.
the sales people asserted it would be functionally
exchangeable with a decstation (except for speed) but
this seems completely false.

any explanations or alternate approaches to using the
vt1200 would be appreciated.