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From: rpburry@ncs.dnd.ca (Paul Burry)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Openwin or X11R4
Keywords: OpenWin X11R4
Message-ID: <1991May29.230342.15836@ncs.dnd.ca>
Date: 29 May 91 23:03:42 GMT
References: <1991May29.144727.5008@javelin.sim.es.com>
Organization: Dept. of National Defence, Ottawa.
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In article <1991May29.144727.5008@javelin.sim.es.com> bgeer%javelin@dsd.es.com writes:
	:
|shortly before the arrival of the IPC.  So far, I'm not that impressed
|with openwin on the IPC, especially since the distribution of X
|includes, libraries, & executables files are into non-X11-typical
|subdirectories.  I mean, I don't think I should have to monkey around
|with make files to compile such benign programs as xv or xroaches.
|Making gazillions of file links seems quite unreasonable, too.
|
|So, I'm tempted to "off" openwin & load up a "generic" X11R4 & Motif
|into a more typical directory layout -- /usr/bin/X11, etc.  Anyone got
|comments on this plan -- good, bad, indifferent?

I've also been thinking about running MIT X11R4 on my SS1+, but my motivation
is somewhat different.   We have a bunch of X-terminals and workstations from
other vendors.  When we try to display some of the Sun's Openwindows 
applications on these Xservers, they often complain about missing fonts etc.

So, I have been thinking about tossing Openwindows and running MIT X11R4 and
one of the available window managers distributed with MIT X.

Now, the questions:
	1.	What Openwindows applications break when used with MIT X11R4?
	2.	What window manager should we run?
	3.	Will the Olwm distributed with MIT X11R4 work with my favorite
		Openwindows applications? 

Thanks,
	Paul
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