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From: jip@nih-csl.UUCP (john powell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: R2- experiences
Message-ID: <315@nih-csl.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 20:23:27 GMT
Organization: NIH-CSL, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 59
Keywords: xterm, .Xdefaults, etc




Environment: SUN 3/50 OS 3.4, X11R2 via epos.mit.edu FTP.

X11 server, libs and clients all build with no problems, following
releasenotes and server/ddx/sun/README files.

Observations:

1.  I have not discovered the relevant documentation concerning
    setting up of .Xdefaults and other files for clients which use
    the toolkit.  It seems that the '.' changes to a '*' for clients
    (like xterm) which use the toolkit.  Although MAN pages suggest 
    that the format is *[lowercase] it seems that both upper and lower
    case work.

2.  Also it is not clear whether the -geometry switch
    wants an '=' sign or just the 111x111+0+0.  For example
    xclock says
    Usage:
		 [-g =[<width>][x<height>][<+-><xoff>[<+-><yoff>]]]

    but it accepts -g <width>][x<height><+-><xoff>[<+-><yoff>.

3. If you bring up xterm, get both vt and tek windows showing,
   reverse video on vt and both reverse (OK).  However if you
   bring up xterm (NO tek window showing, just vt) and then
   select reverse video, now when tek window is shown it is
   still normal video and nothing shows up on the tek display.

4. xterm windows do not seem to want to DIE.  The menu kill doesn't
   seem to do anything (signalInhibit is not in .Xdefaults and default
   should be false according to man).

5. Running xterm on a SUN (via rsh) to a server on IBM RT, the xterm
   comes up reverse video.  xterm from R1 comes up correctly.

6. The spaceout (or space) program posted a while back, which runs
   correctly on RTs and uVAXs ... still displays a black screen on
   the SUN X11R2 as it did on R1.  Although I have not yet tried andrew
   on R2 (still FTPing :)), trying the pre-release 2 andrew 
   - cursors inside andrew windows are invisible as they were in R1
   (included here because I suspect its the same problem.)

7. x10tox11 - is very nice - to bad Mark Poeppings Menuwm will
   not run thru it ... maybe CMU will provide an overlapping
   CWM - it would be NICE.  (I am grateful for cmenu)



				John Powell (301) 496-2963
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