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From: bill@polygen.uucp (Bill Poitras)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Openwin or X11R4
Keywords: OpenWin X11R4
Message-ID: <1121@redford.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 91 13:51:54 GMT
References: <1991May29.144727.5008@javelin.sim.es.com> <1991May29.230342.15836@ncs.dnd.ca>
Reply-To: bill@redford.UUCP (Bill Poitras(X258))
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In article <1991May29.230342.15836@ncs.dnd.ca> rpburry@ncs.dnd.ca (Paul Burry) writes:
>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?
If you don't have availible in some sub-directory libolgx.a and
libxview.a, then all the "tool" applications (mailtool, dbxtool etc) will
not be able to find these libraries.  If you leave the openwin directory
on disk, then setting your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to $OPENWINHOME/lib will fix
this.  You might not be able to find certain fonts when running them.
Converting Openwin fonts to .bdf format and installing them should fix
this possible problem.
>	2.	What window manager should we run?
What's your favorite?  Basically its what you want.
>	3.	Will the Olwm distributed with MIT X11R4 work with my favorite
>		Openwindows applications? 
Yes.
>
>Thanks,
Your welcome
>	Paul
Bill

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