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- From: francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: X11 server in OS/2?
- Message-ID: <47608@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:40:53 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ogicse.47608
- References: <rbeebe.20.0@surgery.med.yale.edu>
- Sender: news@ogicse.ogi.edu
- Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute - Department of Env. Science and Eng.
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- rbeebe@surgery.med.yale.edu (Rick Beebe) writes:
-
- ]Okay, it's just not something I ever tried. That's good news: we have both
- ]client and server. I would assume, therefore, that if I'd invested in the
- ]programmer's kit, then I could right OS/2 applications that could be
- ]displayed on our Unix box. Yippee!
-
- Well, not quite. If you have the X11 programmer's kit you can write X11
- applications that can be used remotely running on an OS/2 machine.
-
- ]Francis Moraes wrote:
- ]
- ]]A point of interest though: Before I actually got things running correctly
- ]]I had the remote machine running xhello on the PC and displaying on the PC.
- ]]While this was going on, the focus of _all_ of my X programs changed to
- ]]pointer (since that was the focus policy of the remote machine). Strange.
- ]
- ]This happens when you don't have the DISPLAY variable set to your local
- ]machine. Actually, it can be quite fun on a multiuser machine if you have
- ]privileges (ie, as root). You can run programs and make them display on
- ]_other people's_ terminals. Great fun.
-
- No, this isn't what I was talking about. It seems that the window
- management of the client can take control of the server. This is _very_
- strange. I would be interested in any comments on why (and how) this is.
-
- Francis Moraes
-