[comp.windows.x] twm on VAX/BSD4.3/X11.R2

roman@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roman J. Budzianowski) (08/02/88)

People seem to enjoy twm, so I built it on our system (version 3.0). At first it
froze my screen and looped forever in lex at the end of parsing .twmrc
(our lex looks for eof on the yyin file descriptor). After fixing this
twm started successfully. 
There are, however, all sorts of problems, especially with moving
operations : windows jump in unexpected directions,
disappear from the screen, or cannot be moved passed some coordinate in the
x direction. There is no pattern in this. Efforts to move icons are
completely unsuccesful, and sometimes twm dumps core (in event.c).
There are other, minor, problems (with resizing).

Has anybody successfully ported twm to VAX/4.3 ? I would appreciated any help.
We would like to provide our users with a 'user friendly' wm ( I know about
awm).

Thanks,

Roman Budzianowski
Project Athena/ MIT