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- From: mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu (Mitchell Marks)
- Subject: Re: AnswerBook with X11r5??
- In-Reply-To: damir@white.lbl.gov's message of 3 Nov 1992 21:43:04 GMT
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computer Science
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 06:01:34 GMT
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- >>>>> "DS" == Damir Sudar <damir@white.lbl.gov> writes:
-
- DS> Hi,
-
- DS> I just installed AnswerBook and found out that it seems to
- DS> require running under OpenWindows 3. I don't like OpenWindows
- DS> and would like to use it under X11r5 with twm. Does anybody know
- DS> a way to make it run that way??
-
- DS> Thanks,
- DS> - Damir
-
-
- There have already been several postings explaining one approach. If
- you don't care for the complication of that approach, consider this:
- is it OpenWindows per se that you don't like, or just olwm (the window
- manager) and the deskset and the OpenLook style? Because you ccan run
- the openwindows server (including the NeWS capability that's needed
- for Answer Book) but use TWM as the window manager. We have a few
- users doing that, without too many problems.
-
- Exactly how to do it depends on your setup. Look at your ~/.xinitrc
- file, or the model or sample file in the openwindows area on your
- system. If it calls "olwm" somewhere around the middle, and ends with
- "wait", then do this: delete the "olwm" line along with the
- immediately preceding "sleep ... pid=$!" line and the immediately
- following "wait $pid" line. Also delete the final "wait". At the
- end, put a line calling twm. If you start applications directly in
- this file, they should all be backgrounded or started by toolwait.
- The twm should *not* be backgrounded.
-
- Any startup applications will show up first as naked windows, which
- can be unnerving. But when twm fires up, the windows will blink away,
- and come back decorated with TWM borders and titlebars. You may have
- to adjust some font specifications and iron out minor things. But in
- general you can have your cake and eat it too.
- --
- Mitch Marks mitchell@cs.uchicago.edu
- Any two people may be talking to each other, at any moment, in a
- civilized way about something trivial, or even something complex and
- delicate. And inside each of the two there runs a kind of dark river
- of unconnected thought, of secret fear, or violence, or bliss --
- hoped-for or lost -- which keeps pace with the flow of talk and is
- mostly neither seen nor heard. And then at times one or both of the
- two will catch sight or sound of this movement, in himself, or
- herself, or, more rarely, in the other. And it is like the quick slip
- of a waterfall into a pool, like a drop into darkness. The pace
- changes, the weight of the air, though the talk may run smoothly
- onward without a ripple or quiver. -- A. S. Byatt
-
-