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From: rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: twm on Domain/X11 shared mode server
Keywords: X twm
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Date: 12 Feb 91 17:40:32 GMT
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In article <362@camdev.comm.mot.com?>, mmuegel@camdev.comm.mot.com	 (Mike "Happy" Muegel) writes:

  Anybody out there use twm with dm enabled (but wmgr off)? I recently got the
  X11R4 MIT source and compiled twm using the R4 run-time library I got from 
  Jim Rees at University of Michigan.
  > I have been having some real trouble with twm.  It is still locking up
  > and the DM transcript pads still get junk (inverse characters, vertical lines,
  > and cursors dissappearing) in them.

(I tried to send mail to Mike, but his smtp server just times out.)

I use twm (actually tvtwm) with the r3 share-mode server and X owns root.
This worked fine at sr10.2 and still works at sr10.3.  The only trick is
that you have to resize the 3 DM command windows at the bottom to make room
for the borders that twm wants to put on them (is there some way to get it
not to do this?).  If you don't, the DM is unhappy, but I haven't seen any
lockups or "junk" as you describe.

Are you sure you've got both wmgr -off and s+r+?  Things get very confused
if you've got one side owning the root and the other managing the windows,
or both trying to manage windows.

Here are the window positions I use on my 1280bw (from
`node_data/startup.1280bw):

#  Window positions for the DM's input and output windows.
#  Do not comment these out.
(694,995)dr;(1277,1010)cv /sys/dm/output
(2,995)dr;(637,1010)cv /sys/dm/input
(642,995)dr;(690,1010)cv /sys/dm/output;pb