angus@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) (09/02/88)
I hope this subject hasn't been flogged to death, I've only just re-subscribed to comp.windows.x. I have been having problems trying to use X11 on a sun 3/110 running SunOS 3.2, with a cg4 display: 1) I haven't been able to consistently get the "adjacentscreens" effect which the XSun manual page says should happen - if I don't specify a device with either XDEVICE or -dev, I get an error message which says something like 'connection #3 to server broken'. On the occasions when I have managed to get the effect, I have found that the window manager (awm) only works on one screen - do I need to start separate window managers for each screen? 2) If I start the server up using -dev /dev/bwtwo0, there is a band at the top of the screen which is unusable - it looks like the wrong screen is overlayed. 3) If I start the server with -dev /dev/cgfour0 it is almost unusably slow - are there any patches to make it faster (usable)? 4) The -fp (font-path) flag does not accept a font path - it only takes one directory. The fix should be easy - cut the relevant part out of .../clients/xset/xset.c, and put it into .../server/os/4.2bsd/filenames.c. 5) Awm messes up some icon bitmaps on the /dev/cgfour0 server. 6) Awm walking menus don't redraw properly on either /dev/bwtwo0 or /dev/cgfour0 when going back up the menu hierarchy. 7) Awm doesn't appear to be executing the startup file specified by -e. All help, suggestions appreciated! Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland. JANET: angus@uk.ac.ed ARPA: angus%ed@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk USENET: angus@ed.ac.uk UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!ed!angus