loureiro@cadm.DEC.COM (Sign of the Times) (05/25/88)
Hi, I am working on an application that will attempt to display X information on a video terminal, as opposed to a workstation. We are keeping the resources and structures the same, but will will display windows through a video terminal screen management package. We would like to keep the Xrm as is, rather than writing a resource manager to do the same thing on the video terminal. A few questions arise: 1) Do we need to have an X server running to use the Xrm? 2) There is an XrmInitialize(); routine - does XtInitialize have to be called first? I doubt it, but if so, then we could not call it - since we will be working on systems w/out an X server. If you know of other constraints that I may have overlooked, please feel free to inform me. Also, there has been mention of some work with X on a video terminal. I am very interested in anyone's adventures. I'm not on the distribution list yet, so please, if you could, send me mail. Thanks. Rob Loureiro Digital Equipment Corp.
haynes@WSL.DEC.COM (05/26/88)
No. Xrm runs on the client side and can be used without an X connection. 2) There is an XrmInitialize(); routine - does XtInitialize have to be called first? I doubt it, but if so, then we could not call it - since we will be working on systems w/out an X server. XtInitialize is not needed to use the resource manager. XrmInitialize can be called directly, -- Charles