mckie@nas.nasa.gov (William McKie) (12/16/90)
I've recently installed X11R4 on our Sun sparcstation-370 (SunOS 4.0.3c), having set UseSunWindowsInServer to YES in the sun.cf file. Everything is working well so far, except that our many favorite SunView applications can't seem to run under the Xsun server. Sun's OpenWindows 2.0 has a SunView compatibility option which can be activated with an "eval `svenv -env`" command in the .xinitrc file. Is there a similar feature in X11R4 so that we can run SunView applications under Xsun? I read the section in the Xsun man page which describes starting up SunView, then running X11R4 xinit, then mousing between different screens to use both SunView and X. But we were hoping to run X11R4 as a one-and-only basic window system (on a single console), within which we would then run a mix of both X and SunView applications. This may be asking too much, but wanted to check to see if I was missing something. I suppose I misinterpretted the meaning of UseSunWindowsInServer. [We're in the process of comparing OpenWindows 2.0 with X11R4 to see how best we can begin using more X11 applications without leaving behind the SunView applications we've become dependent upon.] Thanks, -Bill McKie NASA Ames Research Center mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov
mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (01/13/91)
> I've recently installed X11R4 on our Sun sparcstation-370 (SunOS > 4.0.3c), having set UseSunWindowsInServer to YES in the sun.cf file. > Everything is working well so far, except that our many favorite > SunView applications can't seem to run under the Xsun server. This is not what UseSunWindowsInServer does. Rather, it produces a server that knows how to run under SunWindows, rather as if you did `overview Xsun'. > Sun's OpenWindows 2.0 has a SunView compatibility option [...]. Is > there a similar feature in X11R4 so that we can run SunView > applications under Xsun? No. R4 does not support SunView applications. > But we were hoping to run X11R4 as a one-and-only basic window system > (on a single console), within which we would then run a mix of both X > and SunView applications. If you really must mix SunView and X on the same screen, as far as I know you have to use OpenWindows. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu