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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.184048.8933@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- References: <1992Dec16.185356.17158@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.182401.7736@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <16017@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 18:40:48 GMT
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- In article <16017@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >Ruth Milner writes:
- >>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"?
-
- Tried this for a while, the biggest problem was dismissing popups (which of
- course came up without pins) without killing the primary application. This
- could just have been my ignorance and might have been avoidable with some
- option in .twmrc, but there were other problems with the appearance and
- behavior of the windows etc.
-
- > 2) the MIT X11R4 server and "olwm"?
-
- Didn't try this one. It might have worked for problem b), but wouldn't have
- helped with problem a) for OW3 NeWS-based apps that people here use.
- --
- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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