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From: mckie@nas.nasa.gov (William McKie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: SunView applications under X11R4
Keywords: SunView, Xsun, X11R4
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Date: 16 Dec 90 02:46:45 GMT
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Reply-To: mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov (Bill McKie)
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Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
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I've recently installed X11R4 on our Sun sparcstation-370 (SunOS
4.0.3c), having set UseSunWindowsInServer to YES in the sun.cf file.
Everything is working well so far, except that our many favorite
SunView applications can't seem to run under the Xsun server.

Sun's OpenWindows 2.0 has a SunView compatibility option which can be
activated with an "eval `svenv -env`" command in the .xinitrc file.  Is
there a similar feature in X11R4 so that we can run SunView applications
under Xsun?

I read the section in the Xsun man page which describes starting up
SunView, then running X11R4 xinit, then mousing between different
screens to use both SunView and X.  But we were hoping to run X11R4
as a one-and-only basic window system (on a single console), within
which we would then run a mix of both X and SunView applications.

This may be asking too much, but wanted to check to see if I was
missing something.  I suppose I misinterpretted the meaning of
UseSunWindowsInServer.

[We're in the process of comparing OpenWindows 2.0 with X11R4 to see
how best we can begin using more X11 applications without leaving behind
the SunView applications we've become dependent upon.]

Thanks,
-Bill McKie
NASA Ames Research Center
mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov