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From: gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: purpose of x logo?
Message-ID: <6176@melon11.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 16:46:52 GMT
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In article <12333@sybase.sybase.com> forrest@orion.sybase.com (Jon Forrest) writes:
>In article <4683@awdprime.UUCP> woan@peyote.cactus.org writes:
>>bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>>Bill> This is probably a pretty dumb question -- but just what is the
>>Bill> purpose of the "Xlogo" program?
>>
>
>My guess is that it is a good example of an X program that doesn't
>do much but, in order to be displayed, demonstrates that much of
>the components of an X environment are working properly.
>
>It doesn't do much but if it works that this shows that a substantial
>amount of the system-dependent parts of our software is working.


Nah.

I think it's to show off that you're running X.

Where I work, most people use SunView, but we're ever so
slowly converting to X.  People have xlogo up to show
off that they're "cool"..

-greg

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