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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
- Message-ID: <16017@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 04:28:17 GMT
- References: <BEAULIEU.92Dec16084643@piranha.bose.com> <1992Dec16.185356.17158@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.182401.7736@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
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- >I used to use twm and X11R4 myself, but
- >switched when I found that a) I couldn't answer people's questions, and b) a
- >lot of commercial Sun apps don't work *quite* right in plain X.
-
- So did they work OK with:
-
- 1) the X11/NeWS server and "twm"?
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- 2) the MIT X11R4 server and "olwm"?
-
- 3) neither?
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- (My pure guess is the answer is 2), i.e. that the toolkit is depending
- on the window manager being "olwm", but it could be 1) or 3).)
-