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Is it possible to start a windowmanager (such as kdm or fvwm2) on
MIXServer 5.6?

Thanks in advance,

Doc Snyder

Quote:>Is it possible to start a windowmanager (such as kdm or fvwm2) on
>MIXServer 5.6?

I ended up with superX and WinX32 both are Win95 Xservers and allow you to
use the Windows window manager.

WinX32 gives you two hours then warns you and shuts down. SuperX is a sixty
day trial (then you have to reinstall).

Dave

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On Tue, 26 May 1998 22:09:27 +0200, Markus Schneider

http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/

Raphael

I use Xwin32 http://www.starnet.com (which I suppose is similar) running
under win95 and NT and it works quite happily using xdm or kdm.
Regards,
David Limbrick.

: >Is it possible to start a windowmanager (such as kdm or fvwm2) on
: >MIXServer 5.6?
: >
: Hi
: I couldn't get it to work :-(

You can only run *one* window manager at a time.

: I ended up with superX and WinX32 both are Win95 Xservers and allow you to
: use the Windows window manager.

As these are already running a window manager you can't run another one.

i.e. you probably can't run a remote window manager with a MS windows, OS/2,
etc X-Server. You can with a proper X-Terminal. (Or if you can find
something which will actually work as one, i.e. if will give you a grey
hatched screen with an 'X' shaped cursor when you start it up.)

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: I use Xwin32 http://www.starnet.com (which I suppose is similar) running
: under win95 and NT and it works quite happily using xdm or kdm.

xdm (and kdm) are not window managers. Also they are not usually run
with a window manager active, even though they could be.

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Quote:> i.e. you probably can't run a remote window manager with a MS windows,
> OS/2, etc X-Server. You can with a proper X-Terminal. (Or if you can find
> something which will actually work as one, i.e. if will give you a grey
> hatched screen with an 'X' shaped cursor when you start it up.)

I prefer fvwm. Here's the script I run on my Linux box after logging in via
telnet. MIX is running on the box I logged in from.

  cd
  server=`ps f | perl -ne 'print $1 if /login -h ([-_A-Za-z0-9]+)/;'`
  export DISPLAY=$server:0.0
  exec ~/.Xclients &
  ( sleep 30; rm core ) &

It figures out which system I logged in from, sets $DISPLAY appropriately,
and runs my .Xclients script (which starts fvwm and a few clients.) This
give me the same desktop I see when I run startx on the Linux console.

Deleting the core file is handy because MIX does not implement some shape
extensions, so some of the clients in my .Xclients file bomb out (for
instance, xclock).

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On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 10:26:07 +0100, Mark Evans

I have yet to see anything this fancy in freeware, so if you want a fully
functional, fully X11R6 compliant X server for Windows, you may have to shell
out some bucks.  Personally, I'm very satisfied with the purchase.

        --Arthur Corliss
          "Live Free or Die--the Only Way to Live" (NH State Motto)

Check out MicroImages Free TNT Lite X Server
www.microimages.com

It supports a lot of the XWindows protocol - enough
for their application - so they give it away for free.

It doesn't have a font server, so you must manually transfer
any fonts you need from the Linux box, but that said, it
is free, and it works !

S.

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also, your previous post was similarly non-responsive.

just thought you should know.

H.