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From: davis@groucho.ucar.edu (Glenn P. Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: aixterm client fails to xnews server
Keywords: IBM Sun xnews OpenWindows AIX
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Date: 23 Jan 91 21:31:24 GMT
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The "xterm" variant provided with an IBM RS/6000 is called "aixterm".

When I attempt to run this X client using the Sun OpenWindows server "xnews",
aixterm fails with the following message:

aix% setenv DISPLAY theSun:0
aix% aixterm
aixterm: BadAlloc, insufficient resources for operation
Request code 1, minor code 0, serial #79, resource id 10485767
Abort (core dumped)

If I run the MIT server on the sun, it works ok.

In both cases, the window manager on the sun is "twm".
The server is a color machine.
We tried setting the aixterm fonts explictly to ones known to
be on the Sun.

Who is at fault here?
What is really going on?
Is there a workaround?

Thanks.

Glenn P. Davis
UCAR / Unidata
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