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From: kline@tuna.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DEC windows/X windows compatibility
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Date: 12 Apr 89 23:03:54 GMT
References: <28757@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <3104@stpstn.UUCP> <2628@decuac.DEC.COM> <10871@paris.ics.uci.edu> <2335@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
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>> MIT 11.3 runs just fine on this machine, but DECwindows is a **PIG**.
> 
> Hmm...  I guess the vs2000 is a substantially better machine than the old
> uvaxII/GPX, cause you seem to be having more luck with the MIT release than I.
> Actually everything but large bitmap-type programs (xsetroot, xphoon, bitmap
> etc.) work all right, but I was hoping, given what the consortium people had
> been saying about it, that the DECwindows server would work substantially
> better in those areas.  Oh well.  And my guess was that with DECwindows
> available, the MIT people would no longer feel the need to improve on their
> original sample server.  Anyone know if this would be a correct assumption?
> 
I run the DECwindows server and window manager (dxwm), but I bagged the
seesion manager and dxterm. I run the MIT clients. On this 6Mb VS2000,
things are a bit slow but not so bad that it's unusable or even annoying.

Hey, speaking of window managers, has anyone gotten awm from the X11R3 tape
to run under DECwindows? I know it works because a colleague got it to work
on a Sun-3 running "real" MIT X, but it does strange things (like cause
xterm to dump core) on my 2000. Is there some subtle incompatibility here?

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