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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Subject: Re:  X-Sunview
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Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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Date: 4 Apr 91 06:34:58 GMT
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> I would like to use Sunview applications (such as Textedit, Sunpaint,
> Islanddraw and many more...) under X window environment (which I find
> much better than Sunview, of course !).  (I mean without using
> Openwindows : my window manager is twm.)

There is no reason you can't use the OpenWindows server, to get sunview
application binary compatibility, and still run your choice of X
environment, including your choice of window manager.  You just need to
tell xinit (or xdm, or whatever it is that starts your server) to run
xnews instead of xinit....

Another possibility is to build your server with UseSunWindowsInServer
(I think that's the name) turned on.  (You *are* using the MIT server,
I trust.)  If you do this, you can then start up sunview, then start
the X server and have it overlay sunview.  This is not an ideal
solution, since there is no simple way provided to switch between
environments without completely exiting X[%], but it may be of some
help.  You might also look at adding a hotkey to make X "suspend"
itself, to get back to sunview without fully exiting X.

[%] Unless you have display hardware like the cg4, which provides
    multiple screens; in this case, you can start sunview on both, use
    adjacentscreens to set up switching, and run X over only one of
    them.

					der Mouse

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