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From: msc@ramoth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI licencing of X windows
Message-ID: <32308@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 21:48:48 GMT
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In article <8905051509.AA09442@csd360b.erim.org>, jgarb@CSD360B.ERIM.ORG (Joe Garbarino) writes:
> 
> I can move between our other workstations, and even to my X terminal, and
> still count on being able to use the same mouse/keyboard strokes for window
> manager functions.  I also get to standardize on the window manager I like
> best, not being forced to use the window manager a machine's manufacturer
> gives me.

I didn't say you couldn't run your favourite window manager.  I simply made
a recommendation.  Following it or not is entirely your choice.

> 
> Until this XOR/window manager problem is solved, a major piece of SGI's X
> Window System implementation is severely inadequate, and I will not be
> satisfied with its performance.

I said the performance was "adequate".  How you translate that to "severely
inadequate" without even having seen it is beyond me.  uwm is usable.

> 
> Will there be an upgrade to current equipment to supply the missing
> hardware XOR function?

Upgrades may be made available for some current equipment.  The subject is
still under discussion.

	-Mark
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	-Mark