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- From: sandell@chowning.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Sandell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: WhichX?
- Message-ID: <171pv0INNfda@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 04:03:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.144448.15125@dvorak.amd.com>
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Aug20.144448.15125@dvorak.amd.com> mbehrens@barqs.amd.com
- (Mikael Behrens) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug19.203442.21031@tandem.com>
- > chopper@gumbytsg.tandem.com (Michael Chop) writes:
- > | Hello fellow netters,
- > |
- > | I will be plopping down some money on a X-package. Could some
- > X-package users post some reviews, reccomendations, or
- > experience with them.
- > |
- > | I understand that the three major packages are co-Xist,
- > eXodus, and cub-X.
-
- I don't see mention of X-mouse, which I use. X-mouse comes from McGill
- University, and that's all I know about it. Couldn't tell ya where to ftp
- to. I believe it's public domain.
-
- When you start up this X, NeXTstep vanishes and a standard-looking X
- appearance takes over the screen. This X does everything I've needed it
- to do and I've run into few problems. Some of the things I do are: run S
- (a statistics/graphics package) on a sparc but use the NeXT as the
- display; run Motif/X programs from a Silicon Graphics machine with the
- NeXT as display.
-
- You can suspend your X session and return to NeXTstep and then back again
- with special keystrokes.
-
- There is a strange interaction with the Mail program, though. If you
- return to X with the NeXT mail program still running, X will. This only
- happens intermittently, though.
- --
- Greg Sandell
- Research Fellow, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
- sandell@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu
-