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- From: chad@eng.umd.edu (R Michael McMahon)
- Subject: Re: XWindows and virtual consoles
- Message-ID: <1993Jan03.224329.3542@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 22:43:29 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity von Uniland, College Park
- References: <Lu8qwB1w165w@dat1hb.north.de>
- Originator: chad@ampere.src.umd.edu
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- In article <Lu8qwB1w165w@dat1hb.north.de>, lion@dat1hb.north.de (Daniel Tietze) writes:
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- >1) After starting X, I cannot switch to the other virtual consoles any more.
- >ALT-F1 through ALT-F4 simply dump strange characters in the shell window.
- >Coming to think of it, I have only tried this with the focus on the shell
- >window, not with focus on the desktop. Could this be the problem? My SCO
- >system at work switches to and fro quit well, even from and to X (or, rather,
- >Motif) sessions. Any suggestions?
- >I have installed a new keyboard map for german charcters. Could this be
- >buggy? If so, does anyone know of a fix?
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- The current release of XFree86 (1.1) does not support virtual consoles;
- the soon-to-be-release version 2.0 (or is it called 1.2?) will.
-
- >1.a) Is MOTIF free? Is there any chance for a Motif port to Linux? If
- >I'm not mistaken, Motif is a product of the FSF, the first F meaning "free".
-
- You *are* mistaken. Motif is copyrighted by Open Software Foundation (OSF),
- not FSF. OSF is a for-profit consortium and licenses its software.
-
- >2) After exiting (exciting? :-) ) X, I consistently get an error message
- >telling me about some broken pipe or something (my memory isn't what it
- >used to be). Since everything works OK, I haven't paid this one very much
- >attention.
-
- You can ignore this.
-
- >3) Can anyone tell me how to change the behaviour of X so that focussing
- >a window is performed by clicking on it and focus stays on a window until
- >I click on another window? It's quite annoying that I have to keep the
- >mouse pointer on the shell window while I'm using it.
-
- Assuming you use twm window manager, add this to your .twmrc:
-
- NoTitleFocus
-
- >4) I recently got ingres from an ftp server here in Germany. Due to a
- >damaged archive I haven't been able to test it yet. Does this package include
- >esql support? If not, does anyone know of an esql port to linux? I'd be
- >simply delighted if I could take my work home with me (yes, I'm that kind
- >of person).
- >Currently, my project at work includes: SCO Unix (yeuch!), UI generation with
- >a toolkit using MOTIF (sources for toolkit available to me). ESQL integration
- >with a large ingres database. The rest is C (no C++).
- >Does anyone see a possibility of developing the software at home and then
- >simply taking a tar archive to work now and then and cimpiling it there? Of
- >course, this would depend on a positive answer to item 1.a.
-
- My thesis project is also a C++/MOTIF/database (Postgres) application.
- Unfortunately, I don't have the Motif sources to build libXm, nor does
- Linux currently support shared memory/semaphores for Postgres. You should
- verify that Ingres does not need the latter kernel support before trying
- at home.
-
- R Michael McMahon chad@src.umd.edu
-