Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DEC windows/X windows compatibility Message-ID: <11473@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 11 Apr 89 20:52:24 GMT References: <3104@stpstn.UUCP> <2628@decuac.DEC.COM> <10871@paris.ics.uci.edu> <2335@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 27 I call 'em DICwindows ... Not only is it slow but you can't easily do things like having an xterm running on a remote machine pointing directly to your display. By digging through the manuals I finally found that you could use uwm instead and use X as God (or MIT anyway) intended ;-). I do end up with a Status Manager running as an icon up in the corner of the screen. Or .. if you look in /etc/ttys you'll find a commented out line which'll run uwm directly without all that DICwindows gunk ... BTW ... the slowness isn't because of a bad driver or anything like that. It's because of *huge* programs that're swapping over the ether. Our vs2000's are a bit weak in the memory department and apparently, from the service calls we've put in, the development people all use machines with lots of memory. i.e. no (little) swapping So they don't see these problems ... -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- The problem with mnemonics is they mean different things to different people.