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From: tomj@SUN.COM (Tom Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView and MOTIF info
Message-ID: <8912222145.AA12393@snowking.sun.com>
Date: 22 Dec 89 21:45:34 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
Organization: The Internet
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> From: hook@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Chris Hook)
> Date: 11 Dec 89 18:34:52 GMT
> 
> Hi, I'm having some trouble implementing some X11R3 stuff that I've gotten
> (downloaded) recently, and I'm hoping someone out there has already solved
> these issues. They are:
> 1) XView is SUPER SLOW even on the SPARCstation 1 which I use (I haven't
>    even dared to try it on our color 3/60s!!). Is there something
>    special that nneds to be done to make it run faster? (This is the
>    alpha release of XView).

If you're running XView under OpenWindows, you should start-up your server
with the environment variable X11ONLY set and run with olwm.  In this
configuration, or under R4, XView applications run extremely well.  

> 2) How long 'till a more flexible olwm (the Open Look Window Manager) comes
>    out? This window manager, in conjunction with XView utils, is VERY
>    inflexible. Even Sun admits to many important Open Look features being
>    hardwired instead of being user-selectable.
>
> 3) Will all of this XView stuff be corrected as of the public consumption
>    release of X11R4 (due out NEXT month???). i.e., is Sun expected to 
>    release at least the beta version of this XView stuff (and olwm) in
>    conjunction with the release of X11R4?

A new version of XView and olwm, with new features and bug fixes, will
ship from MIT in the /contrib portion of the standard X11 R4 release.
This new version fixes many of the problems reported against the alpha
version.  We will make this R4 software available on expo by December
31st.  If you'd like to tell us what you'd like to see be "more
flexible" in olwm, please send mail to xviewbugs@sun.com
(..!sun!xviewbugs) and we'll let you know what is fixed and what is
planned to be fixed.


Tom Jacobs
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
tomj@sun.com  (..!sun.tomj)