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From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (James E. Conley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: XV11R3 for Apollos?
Keywords: apollo x xv11r3
Message-ID: <15677@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 9 Dec 88 05:09:42 GMT
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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Does anyone have a working version of X V11R3 for the Apollos?  We have been
running the version from MIT (V11R3) with fixes 1 and 2 applied and the patches
from casey@ucla applied (thanks casey!).  The problems we are having involve
xterms failing to come up at all, freezing being executing the command on the
"-e" line, or failing after running for a while.  I suspect that Apollo has
some bugs in their tty/pty code which doesn't help things, but I thought I'd
ask and see if there is a way to work around those problems.  

We also get an occassional screwup with the bordering and scroll regions of
X windows on the Apollos (color nodes).  The colors usually have white 
horizontal glitches in them.  In addition I've seen several times when the
rubber-band cursor is malformed. 

This is in addition to the problems with speed (a DN3000 is painfully slow)
but I can live with that since the server is not supposed to be tuned.

By the way, when we bought our Apollos about a year and a half ago Apollo
said that they would be puting out an X port as an official product.  They
even have faked up "X" icons in some of their screen shots.  I don't suppose
anyone knows when they are planning to release this? (Just as soon as they
translate the MIT code into Pascal? :-))


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