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From: knobbe@locus.com (Roger Knobbe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: X11R4 window manager troubles
Keywords: X11,twm
Message-ID: <1991May27.011146.812633@locus.com>
Date: 27 May 91 01:11:46 GMT
References: <1991May21.231451.17714@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991May23.174136.17230@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com>
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
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steve@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Steve DeJarnett) writes:

>In article <1991May21.231451.17714@agate.berkeley.edu> geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
>>
>>I recently loaded X11R4 on the RT I use following Michael Brantley's
>>posting and patches.  The server seems to work fine (up to a point).
>>Without any .xinitrc, the server starts and a xterm window pops up on the
>>Megapel display.  However, when I use a .xinitrc file which launches
>>several terminals and twm (Tab Window Manager), the server bombs.

>>Has anyone successfully gotten X11R4 to work on an RT?  And if so,
>>have you gotten any window managers to work?

>	If you're running AIX, well, maybe someone else in the audience has 
>been through this and can help.

I am running X11R4 pl18, server and all, on an RT with AIX 2.2.1 and
have had no significant problems.  Twm will occasionally memory fault
when a remote client has problems, but I have never had a server die.

Let me know if you want the diffs that I made to get it running.

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