ole@er.sintef.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen) (07/23/90)
We have just installed version 6.0 of then system on our TI Explorer, and this version includes an X server. As we have not found any window manager on the Explorer, we have been running the window manager on the same machine which runs the applications. ( a SUN 4/110) Everything works fine (although a bit slow), except for one thing: When a window is changed into an icon, it does not reappear as an icon, but simply disappears ! The processes connected to the windows do survive, though. Any suggestions? We are running the TWM window manager with the Athena widget set and have version 11.4 of X on the SUN. The Explorer X server seems to be version 11.3 ( Does anyone know if an 11.4 version is coming along?)
hans@acsu.buffalo.edu (Hans Chalupsky) (07/24/90)
In article <90Jul23153542*ole@er.sintef.no> ole@er.sintef.no (Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen) writes: >We have just installed version 6.0 of then system on our TI Explorer, and >this version includes an X server. As we have not found any window manager >on the Explorer, we have been running the window manager on the same machine >which runs the applications. ( a SUN 4/110) Everything works fine (although a >bit slow), except for one thing: When a window is changed into an icon, it >does not reappear as an icon, but simply disappears ! The processes connected >to the windows do survive, though. >Any suggestions? > >We are running the TWM window manager with the Athena widget set and have >version 11.4 of X on the SUN. >The Explorer X server seems to be version 11.3 ( Does anyone know if >an 11.4 version is coming along?) We have similar problems at our site and people on this newsgroup (Dan Stenger, Paul Fuqua) have suggested that there are bugs in TI's X-server, however there are patches available and once you have these patches even twm works fine. However, the big problem seems to be to get these patches. After calling 3 times around the world :-) we finally figured out that these patches are only available if you have full software support. With our kind support we probably have to wait until the next system release gets shipped out. Well, its pretty slow anyway - so maybe you want to get something that speaks X as its mother tongue. If anybody knows how to get these patches without paying exorbitant amounts of money please let me know. Btw, there is a window manager in the public directory - XWM - which works fine (just basic functions, no frills), we tried it, you might want to check it out. hans chalupsky