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From: smart@manta.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Robert Smart)
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Subject: Re: Misc OpenWindows 2.0 questions
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Date: 24 Mar 91 11:51:39 GMT
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>> I think I've worked out at last that Openwindows is not up to running
>> standard X11 programs. I reckon I should be able to get them for
>> misleading advertising.
>
>Gees... my OpenWindows runs "standard" X pgms fine...  
>The SHAPE extension, like any other X extension, is not 
>guaranteed to be available on any X server that you have.
>
I am interested in this. Do xmh and xman from the X11R4 work fine for
you? Did you do anything special? Around here

  (a) Xmh user defined buttons don't quite work (have to use shift click
      to invoke I seem to remember).

  (b) Xmh comes up with an unsuitable font.

  (c) Xman doesn't start up at all.

I just assumed the "shape" business was a part of the general syndrome.
Maybe it isn't -- I'm not an X-pert. As I said to another person who
queried my competence: why would you bring out a server with less features
than the free server??? Maybe there are good reasons.

Bob Smart