Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!pyrltd!abekrd!ecmwf!ecmwf!usd From: usd@ecmwf.co.uk (Ditlef Martens) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 & OpenLook Keywords: dec OLIT Message-ID: <1991Jan23.113921.27581@ecmwf.co.uk> Date: 23 Jan 91 11:39:21 GMT References: Sender: usenet@ecmwf.co.uk (NEWS deafult user) Reply-To: usd@ecmwf.co.uk (Ditlef Martens) Organization: ECMWF Lines: 28 ECMWF has got a network of SUN SPARCs running OpenWindows. We resently got 3 DECstation 5000 running DECwindows. As we are developing XView applications and want to use some of the OpenWindows applications on the DECstation we need to log into a SUN and run XView applications. We have, hovewer NOT succeeded running XView applications on the DECstations. Applications like cmdtool start up, but if we move the cmdtool window, the application aborts with a bad atom error. We have tracked it down to a byte swapping error in the client-event WM_TAKE_FOCUS. XView will ask the server for name (XGetAtomName) of the Atom 9830400, equal to the byte-swapped value of 150 (WM_TAKE_FOCUS). Our configuration is as follows: DECstation 5000 running ULTRIX 4.0. Standard DECwindows configuration. XView fonts from SUN XView 2.0 compiled using bdftopcf. Unless we have done something stupid/wrong in our setup we would NOT recommend mixing these two worlds as there are BUGS in either the DEC server or in XView disabling such cooperation. -- Ditlef Martens ECMWF (European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts) Shinfield Park, Reading Phone: +44 734 499 000 Fax: .. 869 450 Berkshire RG2 9AX UK usd@ecmwf.co.uk