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From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: xroach problems.
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.204929.6782@news.larc.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Mar 91 20:49:29 GMT
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In article <SIMON.91Mar27162454@Lessing.first.gmd.de> simon@opal.CS.TU-Berlin.DE writes:
>>>>>> On 27 Mar 91 06:07:14 GMT, simonm@mel.dit.csiro.au (Simon
>>>>>> McClenahan) said:
>
>SimonM> I can't help you, but I manage to compile it, and it just
>SimonM> plain doesn't work!
>
>Do you use tvtwm? Then the ordinary root window (on which the
>cockroaches run around) will be covered by the virtual desktop window.
>You have to #include "vroot.h" in the `xroach.c' file *after*

We are running dxwm under DecWindows.  And vroot.h seems to give a compiler
warning, which didn't worry me too much, but the roaches still don't appear.
And I know it works on my Sun machines...
--scott