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From: jlevy@arisia.Xerox.COM (Jacob Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3, or Where have all the flamers gone?
Message-ID: <440@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 8 Nov 88 15:16:02 GMT
References: <8811072007.AA10984@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU> <957@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: jlevy@arisia.UUCP (Jacob Levy)
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The X11R3 I have is running on a variety of B&W Sun 3's. Today we are about
to attempt color and Sun4's, so beware an following flames.. :-)

I like it. There are (as usual) some small things I don't like.

#1. Not sure that this has been discussed before, but it seems unreasonable
that the X server exits when it is out of memory. This happens a lot on the
local configuration since people tend to run other big jobs, running out of
swap space fast. Couldn't the request causing the memory exhaustion just be
refused?

#2. xterm comes up with VERY thick scrollbars, if I have xterm*scrollbar: yes
in the .Xdefaults file. It's easy to work around this, by specifying -sb on
the command line, and then somehow it comes up OK. Maybe something wrong in
the way I set up the resource manager or xrdb?

#3. Minor complaint: xhost (or xinit) prints out what hosts are being added
to the permission table, ON THE CONSOLE. makes your screen garbled when X
comes up. Also easy to work around, by redirecting the output of xinit to a
file, for later viewing - this is a good idea anyway,...


All in all, a lot of improvement over R2, and the right people are to be
congratulated.

--Jacob Levy
jlevy.pa@xerox.com