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- From: "grant mcdorman" <grant.mcdorman@canrem.com>
- Subject: re: sunview thru x
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.4590.35235@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "grant mcdorman" <grant.mcdorman@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 12 Dec 92 20:50:15 EST
- Lines: 44
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- Dave Morgan (dmorgan@javelin.sim.es.com) writes:
-
- > tsioutsias-dimitris@cs.yale.edu (Dimitris Ioannis Tsioutsias) writes:
-
- > >How can someone (if he can at all!) open a SunView window thru an
- > >X environment? I am aware only of the xbgsun program that lets you
- > >load a sun-rasterfile while in X.
-
- > This is possible, but only if you are running Sun's Openwindows.
- > Then in your .xinitrc (or somewhere) you must have "eval `svenv
- > -env`"...
-
- Actually, you don't need to run the Open Look window manager (olwm).
- What provides this capability is the xnews server provided with
- OpenWindows; you can (almost) drop it in place of Xsun in your
- .xserverrc (or wherever). The "eval `svenv -env`" is because SunView
- programs require an environment variable which identifies something
- called the "base window" (I think that's the equivalent to the root
- window). If the environment variable is not set, you get the message
- "Not passed base window in environment".
-
- Even when it does work, the window manager doesn't know anything about
- the SunView windows; as a result they are always on top; and you
- (still) can't run SunView windows across the network.
-
- As I said above, xnews is almost equivalent to Xsun. The font formats
- are entirely different, however; and the xnews provided with OLV3 is
- equivalent to an X11R4 server. If you account for these differences,
- you should be able to use xnews instead of Xsun.
-
- If I recall correctly, the man page for Xsun says something about being
- able to run it "on top of SunView". I presume this means you start
- SunView first, and then start X; how the two interact in this
- environment I don't know.
-
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