Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!csustan!polyslo!jeff
From: jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R2- experiences
Message-ID: <1459@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 03:41:48 GMT
References: <315@nih-csl.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
Lines: 29
Keywords: xterm, .Xdefaults, etc

In article <315@nih-csl.UUCP> jip@nih-csl.UUCP (john powell) writes:
>
>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.)
	I worked on the IBM servers while on co-op.  The spaceout
	program helped to find many bugs in the servers.  It might
	be instructive for other server implementors to try it,
	especially Sun.  As I recall the problem was with stipples.
>
>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)
>
	CWM and cmenu were done by the folks at the IBM cambridge
	scientific center in support of the Andrew on X work going
	on at CMU and Palo Alto.

	Jeff Weinstein
	Computer Systems Lab
	Cal Poly State Univ.
	San Luis Obispo, CA
	jeff@polyslo.uucp
	ucbvax!voder!polyslo!jeff

DISCLAIMER:  I no longer work for IBM, and I don't speak for them, or
	Cal Poly for that matter.