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From: aperez@cvbnet2.UUCP (Arturo Perez Ext.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Running X11 under Sun Overview
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Date: 10 Feb 89 14:45:35 GMT
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From article <8902090237.AA15615@venera.isi.edu>, by katz@VENERA.ISI.EDU (Alan R. Katz):
> 
> A real long time ago, someone posted a patch for X10R4 which allowed you to freeze
> the X server and pop back up to suntools when you ran X10 under Sun's Overview
> (by typing LEFT-L2).
> 
> Has anyone done this for X11?  
> 
> I have been trying to do this myself, and just about had it working
> when I got a color Sun 3/110.  The server doesn't seem to run on that
> machine under Overview (it starts up, but then the keyboard and mouse
> are frozen and you have to kill suntools to fix things).
> 
> The server ran fine on my monochrome display.
> 
> We are running X11, release 2 (release 3 has not been installed yet, but we
> have the tape).
> 
> 				Alan (Katz@Isi.Edu)


I don't know if this is a related problem but...

On X11R2, there's a sun around here that does not behave like any of
the others.

When running X in "overview mode" (i.e. bring up suntools, then bring
up X in a shelltool) everything works fine except on this one machine.

What happens is the server starts up and grabs the display.  But, it does
not seem to be able to "access" the mouse so you end up not being able to
do anything with it.  If I recall correctly the console does not come up
either.  The only solution is to reboot the machine.

I'm not sure what the model number is.  It's one of the diskless nodes
and is probably a 3-60C.


Of course, since this is release 2 I don't expect anyone to go about
fixing it.

Arturo Perez