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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3, or Where have all the flamers gone?
Message-ID: <8811091546.AA04553@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 88 15:46:17 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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> #1.  [server exits when it runs out of memory]

We had wanted to make headway on this for R3 but ran out of time.  It was one
of the first things put on the R4 todo list. 


> #2.  xterm comes up with VERY thick scrollbars

Yeah, they look really ugly, don't they.  I like the following (although it
is a little thin):

	XTerm*scrollbar*thickness: 5


> #3. Minor complaint: xhost (or xinit) prints out what hosts are being added
> to the permission table, ON THE CONSOLE.

Sounds like your startup script isn't right.  Send me (but not the list) a copy
of your .xinitrc and explicit directions of how you start up X.  I'll try to
figure out what's up. 

Thanks for the comments,
Jim