hansen@madis.af.MIL (John Hansen) (08/14/90)
Fellow X'ers: Here are a couple of questions I have related to finishing up a succesful installation of X11R4. 1. I have recently compiled X11R4 successfully on a Vaxstation 3200 (replacing most of DecWindows at the same time) and everything went OK. (I even used GCC 1.37.1). In any case, I have lots of applications that I compiled under X11R3 that I would like to run (if possible) without having to recompile each application. When I try to run them I get: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server X Toolkit Error: Can't Open display for every old application I try. The R4 apps which came with the tape mostly work OK (some dump core with a bus error but I'll figure them out sooner or later). I am using xdm to start things up in my rc.local file. Xservers has: ":0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0" in it, if that is of any use. I imagine it has something to do with xauth and .Xauthority but that is entirely a guess on my part. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 2. The DecWindows apps die as mentioned above but in order to get them to work eventually, I need one of two things (I think). I need either a way to use the ".snf" fonts that came with DecWindows under the R4 server (I believe this is probably not possible), or a copy of the fonts.alias file sent to xpert a while back. Can some kind soul help me out on this one? ------ All told the building experience was not too bad. I had minor problems due to the fact that I tried to build with the fonts sub-directory on a different file system sym-linked to $(TOP)/mit/fonts. When the makefile tried to do relative file specification (i.e. ../../.././lib/Xaw/ etc...) it would get lost if it tried to access stuff that was actually on the other file system. I got it to work by sym-linking almost the entire source tree to the file system on which I put the fonts directory. Thanks to all responsible for creating X11R4. It's GREAT! :-) And thanks for lots of useful information on xpert. You do good work. Let's all keep it up. John Hansen madis!hansen@lognet2.af.mil (the long way, but I know it works) hansen@madis1.hq.aflc.mil (supposedly the RIGHT way, but flakey)