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From: zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Xnext (mouse-X)
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.052404.4117@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Mar 91 05:24:04 GMT
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    I installed X11R4-Next-2.0 on a 040 slab today, and it is very nice.
Even with only 8 meg of memory, it seems to run faster then X on a Sparc.

   1.  Would it be possible to make a mono (1 plane) version of it?  It 
appears that the current version is a 2 plane "color" version.   
Many programs use patterns on a mono vs different colors on color machine.
Since the colors do not always map well onto a 2 color machine, I would
prefer to just have a mono server.

   2.  Is there a program that will switch between the X screen and
NeXTStep?  I know about the Hot-Key, but would prefer to have a menu selection
in TWM to do the switch.  It seems that a program to switch back to
NeXTStep would be the easiest and most flexible way to do this.

   3.  xtrek and xtrekb didn't seem to run.  Xtrek asked "Who are you?"
while xtrekb just had a bus error.

   4.  xtank on our Sparc would not use the NeXT as a display.  This
might be because of the version of xtank that we were testing.  It seems
to only run on 1 plane X servers.

    5.  XNext doesn't support the Display postscript extensions that
DEC has added to their X severs that their client programs use.


   Xnext converts you NeXT into a X workstation.  (ie it takes over
the entire screen)  I think this is very nice for when I want to work in
X.

   I have not gotten coXist yet, but from what I have heard, it runs X in
a NeXTStep window.  I think this is a nice solution when I want to be able
to run one or two X programs, while still having access to all of the
nice NeXTStep programs.

   I think that the two programs solve slightly different problems.  Having
both would probably be the best solution.  (Disk space permitting)

Note:  I am not saying anything bad about NeXTStep.  I just like to have
the flexibility to run X or NeXTStep, or both at the same time.

Andrew
zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu