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- Most of X11R3 is now available. In particular I compiled servers for
- the sun4s and the sun3s. No new servers for ds3100s, but the ultrix Xmfb.new
- server is now integrated into the rest of the world.
- Note that all servers now use pseudo-devices. This should relieve ds3100
- users who usually wait 2 minutes for X to start... (color ds3100 still
- have a problem with the rgb database).
-
- Essentially all of the X11R3 clients I could gather are also compiled.
- Please look in /X11R3/status for your favorite programs. If anything is
- missing, just let me know. I'm still having problems with: xload and
- xkill (note that a new f.kill function is available in uwm). I am NOT
- planning on supporting x1tox11 or xterm!
-
- I would like to encourage everyone to swith to X11R3 so that X11R2 can
- be phased out. OK, if you do the following, you'll be up and running R3:
-
- 1. place /X11R3/cmds.$MACHINE in your path before /sprite/cmds.$MACHINE
- and remove /X/cmds.$MACHINE
- 2. make sure you have no file called .xserverrc in your home directory (you
- probably haven't).
- 3. restructure the way you start-up X. Copy the shell script which fires-up
- all your clients into .xsetup and copy /mic/newuser/.xinitrc into your
- home directory. .xinitrc initializes the server before any window pops
- up and ends in starting the window manager and your login window. The
- login window will execute your .xsetup script to bring up all other
- clients.
- 4. to start X, simply type 'xinit'. That's IT!.
- 5. Let me know what goes wrong.
-
- Thanks,
- -Thorsten
-
- NB: which servers are we using?
- on sun3s: the standard MIT distribution augmented with Sprite
- pseudo-device code.
- on sun4s: the standard MIT distribution augmented with Sprite
- pseudo-device code.
- on ds3100: for b/w machines the DEC server augmented with
- Sprite pseudo-device code. On color machines the
- DEC server without pseudo-device code. We have NO
- source code for any of the DEC servers!
- -Thorsten
-