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- From: valsta@kuusi.metla.fi (Lauri Valsta)
- Subject: Re: olwm, olvwm and MacX
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.084624.1135@kuusi.metla.fi>
- Organization: Metsantutkimuslaitos
- References: <1992Aug14.220732.14133@cs.wm.edu>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 08:46:24 GMT
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- ajn@physics.wm.edu (Alastair Neil) writes:
-
- >Hi, had an annoying problem crop up recently - we have a couple of people
- >who use MacX 1.1 to connect to our sun (4.1.1, X11R5). They would like
- >to use olwm or olvwm - however it complains that another window manager
- >is running, this is odd, although I know that screens [name]:0.0 and
- >[name]:0.2, are managed by the Mac window manager, screens [name]:0.1
- >and [name]0.3 are supposed to be unmanaged. TWM will come up report
- >about window managers running on screens 0 and 2, but then work ok on
- >screen 3, even when the display is set explicitly to [name]:0.3 olwm and
- >olvwm (3.2) just bomb out. The really peculiar part is that both people
- >swear that it used to work a few months ago - even though we have not
- >changed the configuration (I did update olvwm from 3.1 to 3.2).
-
- If I get you right, you seem to know that OpenWindows must be run with
- the rooted MacX windows. Another point is that you should run olwm in
- the -single mode. So put into your command
-
- % olwm -single
-
- Does this help?
-
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