mike@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik) (05/29/90)
I have some questions about X11 on Apollos:
Is the Xapollo server the same for both color and b/w screens? We use the
same server for both types of screens. Can this server handle a b/w screen
efficiently?
Also, the color handling seems to be strange with Xapollo. If I start up the
screens with the xstart script, it occasionally will start up with black and
red colors instead of with the ``standard'' black and white ones.
The color handling seems to be a real problem. The golddig game does not work
properly on black color screens, the tron game does not work properly on
either color or b/w screens. This may of course be a programming mistake, but
it works on *lots* of other workstations ( This seems to be a general Apollo
quirk, that programs that normally run, do not run on Apollos, even the
ones supplied by Apollo. - Ever tried /etc/renice withe the -u option
--- Segmentation fault
Or disable ( ver sys5 - disable printer ) without the -r option?
$ disable las
Segmentation fault
Or the lpr system *WITHOUT* an underlying /com/prf print program?
Does not work! -
Real strange segmentation faults you also can obtain with sockets - try!
But that was just a short excursion into the adventurous field of
Apollo (x?)or UNIX compatibility - now back to the main topic)
I also did not manage to get some othe programs like the pendulum clock
from comp.sources.x to work and lots of other X stuff.
Mixing X and DM is not quite working either. Sometimes DM windows will change
colors when you start X or create windows.
And now something that should probably be posted to alt.folklore.computers:
Have you ever tried to type in a dm pad while the window positioning angle
from uwm is being displayed! While you have not positioned this window,
characters typed will not be displayed, but rather saved in a lifo
structure (try for yourself)!!!!!
bye,
mike
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