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- From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
- Subject: Re: XWindows and virtual consoles
- In-Reply-To: lion@dat1hb.north.de's message of 2 Jan 93 19:38:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.212011.24208@news.stolaf.edu>
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- Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN USA
- References: <Lu8qwB1w165w@dat1hb.north.de>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:20:11 GMT
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- In article <Lu8qwB1w165w@dat1hb.north.de> lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze) writes:
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- 1) After starting X, I cannot switch to the other virtual consoles any more.
- ALT-F1 through ALT-F4 simply dump strange characters in the shell window.
- Coming to think of it, I have only tried this with the focus on the shell
- window, not with focus on the desktop. Could this be the problem? My SCO
- system at work switches to and fro quit well, even from and to X (or, rather,
- Motif) sessions. Any suggestions?
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- Yeah: wait. The current version of Xfree86 does not yet take
- advantage of the brand-new kernel features for doing this.
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- 1.a) Is MOTIF free? Is there any chance for a Motif port to Linux? If
- I'm not mistaken, Motif is a product of the FSF, the first F meaning "free".
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- No, you are mistaken. It is from the OSF, the O meaning Open, not
- free. Motif is *DEFINITELY* not free. Check the prices on the Motif
- libs sometime when you want sticker shock...
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- Does anyone see a possibility of developing the software at home and then
- simply taking a tar archive to work now and then and cimpiling it there? Of
- course, this would depend on a positive answer to item 1.a.
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- Well, you could buy the motif source from OSF, and then I imagine it
- might work. ;-)
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- michaelkjohnson
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