andrew@erm.oz.au (10/23/89)
Can anyone help us with the X11/NeWS questions bellow. 1. Do Sun plan to support 24 and 32 bitplane boards under X11/NeWS? If so, what boards are planned and when is the support planned for? If not, what is the recommended way of interfacing with these kinds of boards? 2. In a comp.windows.x posting about the XView Toolkit Source Availability, Richard Probst (rprobst@SUN.COM), mentions a stand alone X11 window manager called OLWM. Is this window manager going to be released as a product? If not, what will be Sun's policy on support of this program? 3. We have been running a beta2.0 copys of Open Windows on both a Sun4/110 and Sun386i for a couple of months. We are due to receive the FCS version for the Sun4/110 any day now, but will have to persist for a while with beta2.0 on the Sun386i. Is there any way in the beta2.0 version of killing the window manager or starting up the server with no window manager running? The programs "stopwm" and "startwm" mentioned on p26 of the X11/NeWS Server Guide, seem to be absent from the distribution. Setting the environment variable NOPSWM, as described in some net postings recently does not seem to have any affect on starting up the server. Thanks in advance Andrew Hunt