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- From: laufer@math.luc.EDU (Konstantin Laufer)
- Subject: Re: OpenWindows with Xsun instead of xnews server?
- Message-ID: <9208260116.AA26424@dedekind.math.luc.edu>
- Sender: laufer@dedekind.math.luc.edu
- Reply-To: laufer@math.luc.edu
- Organization: Loyola University Chicago
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:16:36 GMT
- Lines: 30
-
- I wrote:
- > I have been running OpenWindows on a Sun ELC, and the performance is
- > horrific, especially when using olvwm. I decided to switch back to
- > plain X11, but using what's already there in the OpenWin installation.
- > In other words, I want to run the X11 subset of the OpenWin
- > installation by replacing the slow xnews server by the fast Xsun
- > server. I got an Xsun binary and am able to start up X under twm, but
- > as soon as I start any xview-based program, I get the following
- > messages:
- >
- > XView warning: Cannot load font '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)
- > XView warning: Cannot load font '-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)
- > XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: :0.0 (Server package)
- >
- > I understand the font-related messages, but not the one related to the
- > server. Moreover, when I quit twm and try to start ol(v)wm, I get a
- > segmentation fault.
-
- After installing all the missing fonts, everything works fine! I
- don't understand what the missing fonts have to do with the server. I
- would estimate the subjective performance increase to about 500%, and
- I was even running OW3 before, which is supposed to be considerably
- faster than OW2. To me, this tremendous performance increase
- justifies doing without all the OpenWin-specific stuff, and I gladly
- went back to FrameMaker/X, too.
-
- Any comments are *still* appreciated.
-
- --
- -Konstantin
-