mikep@progress.COM (Mike Pacholec) (02/09/91)
I know how to run X over Sunview, but I would like to be able to hot key (switch) back and forth between the two on the fly (we have 1 sunview app that I need to use, but am running Motif otherwise). We had this capability in the past, but lost the code in the upgrade to R4. I believe it is a simple server patch. Can someone send it to me. MUCH APPRECIATED!!! mikep@progress.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Pacholec UUCP: mit-eddie!progress!mikep Progress Software Corp. Internet: mikep@progress.com Bedford, MA
danw@pbird14.prime.com (Dan Westerberg) (02/09/91)
If such a 'hot-key' beast/patch does exist, please send it to me as well... Thanks, dan -- =============================================================================== | | | Daniel I. Westerberg email: danw@tbird9.prime.com (or) | | Prime Computer Inc. danw@s49.prime.com | | MS 10-9 | | 500 Old Connecticut Path phone: 508-620-2800 x3644 | | Framingham, MA 10701 fax: 508-879-9098 | | | ===============================================================================
dawson@epps.kodak.com (Keith Dawson) (02/12/91)
In article <1991Feb8.220730.12141@progress.com> mikep@progress.COM (Mike Pacholec) writes: >I know how to run X over Sunview, but I would like to be able to >hot key (switch) back and forth between the two on the fly (we have 1 >sunview app that I need to use, but am running Motif otherwise). There is a way to run X on a Sun color framebuffer and Suntools on the adjacent mono framebuffer. You then dash the cursor off the left or right sides of the screen to "hot key" between the two worlds. This undocumented technique was ferretted out of Sun customer support. I use it occasionally on a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1. The display has two frame-buffers, cgfour0 (8-plane color) and bwtwo1 (mono). >We had this capability in the past, but lost the code in the upgrade >to R4. I believe it is a simple server patch. Can someone send it >to me. MUCH APPRECIATED!!! The trick works as-is with Xnews, the server that comes with Open Windows 2.0. I investigated a bit using a vanilla MIT R4 server but could never get it to work, and Sun customer support had nothing useful to say about non-product servers (no blame to them). Maybe the R4 server needs a patch as you say. Here's the procedure: 1. Make sure device bwtwo1 exists. <become root> cd /dev ; ls -ld b* <if no bwtwo1 then> MAKEDEV bwtwo1 2. From glass-tty login, start suntools in the mono framebuffer. suntools -d /dev/bwtwo1 3. From a shelltool, invoke the sequence that starts X in the color framebuffer. IMPORTANT: do not run this script, source it. ====== source $OPENWINHOME/suntools+xnews The contents of the script are: set verbose setenv FRAMEBUFFER /dev/cgfour0 unsetenv WINDOW_PARENT xinit -- X -dev /dev/cgfour0 & sleep 22 adjacentscreens /dev/bwtwo1 -r /dev/cgfour0 setenv WINDOW_PARENT /dev/win0 unset verbose Hope this helps. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Keith Dawson dawson@epps.kodak.com Atex Advanced Publishing Systems 165 Lexington Rd. (400/165L) 508-670-4025