DECWindows and twm

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From: Thomas Epperly
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 19:24

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I have a DECstation 3100 running DECwindows(Ultrix Worksystem Software 2.0
I haven't gotten the patch yet), and I would like to replace dxwm with twm
or awm.  After some work I got both twm and awm to compile, but neither
works correctly.  They both have trouble with the Session manager window.
awm complains "Unkown property 75".  The symptoms are kind of hard to
describe, but I will try.  It is like the Session manager's window becomes
part of the background.  If I move the Session manager window it moves
away, but a copy remains where it used to be.  This copy cannot be
selected, moved, or iconified.  This happens with both twm and awm.

Please let me know how to fix this if it can be fixed.  When the
advertising says that the DECstation uses X, I assumed that it could
compile and run X software available on the networks(comp.sources.x).
Also, it would be really nice if they included an appropriate imake in the
distribution.

Tom Epperly
Chemical Engineering
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
epperly@chewi.che.wisc.edu
epperly@osnome.che.wisc.edu
te07@cs.cmu.edu

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From: te07@edrc.cmu.edu (Thomas Epperly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.x
Subject: DECWindows and twm
Keywords: DECwindows X twm pmax DECstation
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Date: 20 Jul 89 19:24:24 GMT
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