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From: db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Installing Motif with Open Windows
Message-ID: <9103111257.AA09355@whitney.sunbim.uucp>
Date: 11 Mar 91 12:57:26 GMT
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References: <9103081515.AA25305@foghorn.looney>
Reply-To: db@whitney.UUCP (Danny Backx)
Organization: BIM Everberg Belgium

In article <9103081515.AA25305@foghorn.looney> zinnato@nadc.nadc.navy.MIL writes:
>Do I need no fetch and rebuild all of X11R4 if I already have an X11R4
>compliant server (OpenWindows)?  OpenWindows came with this server... we
>didn't need to have MIT's release.
Both Motif as well as OpenWindows X clients talk X over TCP. There is no need
to rebuild the X server, or to go to the X11r4 server. (Except for speed :-)

>Would I actually be able to run Motif on top of Open Windows?  We have some
>people here (myself included) who don't really care for olwm and just use
>the X11 server from OpenWindows and run twm on it.
Yes.

>Can I apply the MIT patches to Open Windows?  Or has Sun tweaked the server
>too much?
They wrote their own server. You can not apply MIT patches to it.

>Is it possible to fetch only those parts I need from MIT's release?
Yes. You need an X server (e.g. X11/NeWS or X11r4); a window manager (twm, olwm,
mwm, ...); X clients (xterm [X11r4], cmdtool [OW], dbxtool [OW], ...).

Now for the library & toolkit question :

OpenWindows contains a Xt also, but its revision level is too low. You better
replace that one with X11r4's Xt, with all patches applied to it. (For Motif
1.1.1, also the OSF patch to mit/lib/Xt/Selection.c).

	Danny Backx
	System Engineer, BIM Networks

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