mohrfeld@mohrfeld.cs.unc.edu (Katie Mohrfeld) (06/02/89)
We have a bunch of public DECstation 3100s and would like to allow our users to run either DECwindows or their own X11 release 3 environment. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this ? Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Katie Mohrfeld University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Department of Computer Science
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (06/04/89)
Well, environment... I assume you mean after the session manager or howver you log in. The .Xdefaults file allows you to specify window manager, and nothing forces users to use dxterm instead of xterm and dxmail instead of xmh, so it seems to me relatively easy, no? Fred
klein@lupine.UUCP (Doug Klein ) (06/07/89)
We constantly mix DECwindows applications and "standard" X11 applications, including ones running off other cpu's (our environment is a mix of Sun, DEC, 386's, and Mips cpu's). Not only does it work quite well, but it allows us to pick not only the appropriate application, but the appropriate cpu to run things from. (Ever see a pop-up menu from uwm on a Mips box compared to a little VAX? Maahvelous! -:) There are some minor nits, (dxcardfiler won't run under uwm, framemaker won't run under dxwm), but with a small amount of flexibility the mixed environment is *very* workable, and truly proves both the power and functionality of X specifically and "networked computing" in general. Doug Klein Network Computing Devices klein@ncd.com -- Doug Klein Network Computing Devices uunet!lupine!klein