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From: len@geac.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Exotic Interface Query
Message-ID: <622@geac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 11:09:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 11:09:37 1987
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In article <35@decvax.UUCP> gancarz@decvax.UUCP (Mike Gancarz) writes:
>
>I think Jim (Gettys) has the right idea:  Scream loud enough and you'll see
>that kind of functionality appear in the X11 window managers--which it
>should.
>
Okay. Consider this a scream. I would like to get a server implementing
a subset of the X protocol running on a big Vax and driving one
or more vt220s. Obviously, the window manager talking to this
server will not have access to a mouse at all, so there must be
an alternative method of giving it ANY COMMAND from the keyboard!

Mike, would your twm work on our Vax 8650 -- assuming that I had
a vt220 X server, of course?

By the way, does anyone have such a server? I have had a go at
cutting out the graphic and mouse dependent parts of the X11
protocol, but have not attempted an implementation because I do
not have version 11 of X.

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