dupuy@amsterdam.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) (05/06/87)
Having brought up X on our Suns, I want to run X under SunView. Digging up my old saved copies of xpert, I find that I should use overview, with the magic `-w' flag. [can anyone explain what -w really does?]. So I start X - everything works fine (except the mouse tracking is far too responsive). Now I want to suspend X, and get back to my SunView windows, leaving the overview icon. Can I do this? Sending stop signals to X and xinit leaves things in a very weird state (I can remedy this with setkeys, though). But I can never get X to continue normally afterward. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? (Besides running NeWS :-). @alex --- arpanet: dupuy@columbia.edu uucp: ...!seismo!columbia!dupuy
prb@random.cray.COM.UUCP (05/07/87)
The `-w' option, as far as I can tell, does not have overview pass a descriptor of the kbd to the application (X in this case) but instead assigns an environment variable WINDOW_GFX to special file which X can open and gain access to all the fun internal sun functions. (haveing the variable WINDOW_GFX set is how X determines if it is running under overview). Anyhow, to get back to SunView from X press <META-L2> (actually <LEFT-L2> or <RIGHT-L2>) and you will be back to SunView. This probably should have made it into the Xsun man page, but X11 is coming and I assume that the people at SUN will do a better job. As for your Keyboard, X remaps it so that you can use all your function keys. If you do not like this feature, recompile Xsun without the #define RAW_KBD. (I think it actually is in the makefile as -DRAW_KBD). -Paul R Borman Cray Research, Inc. prb@umn-rei-uc.arpa
dupuy@amsterdam.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy) (05/09/87)
Thanks for the explanation of the -w flag. I tried using LEFT-L2 and other various combinations of shift keys, but it didn't suspend X. Will I have to recompile the server without -DRAW_KBD to get that to work? @alex --- arpanet: dupuy@columbia.edu uucp: ...!seismo!columbia!dupuy