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- From: scott@asd.com (Scott Barman)
- Subject: Re: AnswerBook with X11r5??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.191337.21983@asd.com>
- Organization: American Software Development Corp., West Babylon, NY
- References: <27193@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <MITCHELL.92Nov9000134@rose.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 19:13:37 GMT
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- In article <MITCHELL.92Nov9000134@rose.uchicago.edu> mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu writes:
- >>>>>> "DS" == Damir Sudar <damir@white.lbl.gov> writes:
- >
- > DS> Hi,
- >
- > DS> I just installed AnswerBook and found out that it seems to
- > DS> require running under OpenWindows 3. I don't like OpenWindows
- > DS> and would like to use it under X11r5 with twm. Does anybody know
- > DS> a way to make it run that way??
- >
- > DS> Thanks,
- > DS> - Damir
- >
- >
- >There have already been several postings explaining one approach. If
- >you don't care for the complication of that approach, consider this:
- >is it OpenWindows per se that you don't like, or just olwm (the window
- >manager) and the deskset and the OpenLook style? Because you ccan run
- >the openwindows server (including the NeWS capability that's needed
- >for Answer Book) but use TWM as the window manager. We have a few
- >users doing that, without too many problems.
-
- So let's say one is not running twm but is running the Motif Window
- Manager (mwm). There is a known problem with mwm under the OW server
- (Button 3 hangs the server). How can the mwm user get to use AnswerBook
- or any of the other X-incompatible programs Sun decided to heap on us?
- (ever try to wrestle with CD Manager under mwm and the "real" X server?)
-
- (I feel like causing trouble. After all, it's Friday the 13th!)
- For that matter when is Sun, the company that screems "we're standard"
- stop trying to set the standards and follow them so that in the age of
- "right sizing" (don't ya love newspeak? :-) we can spend a couple of
- grand on an X-terminal and not thousands more on a machine we do not
- really need?
-
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- scott@asd.com |
- (I can barely speak for myself, you expect me to speak for my employer??)
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