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I have tried to do exactly what you do - i.e. usink my DECstation 3100 as
a client running "mwm" for my VAXstation 3100.
I am using DECs UCX/TCP-IP as a transport, so I may have a different set
of problems. But at any rate, the networked mwm behavior is farr less than
impressive (in particular for any rubber-banding operations, such as window
resize - though I may be spoiled by DS3100). In addition, mwm keeps cleanly
exiting - so far I haven't been able to find out why (what events sequence
is a trigger).
[I'd just LOVE to have Motif working on VMS, even though it won't cure its
 slow startup]

Regarding connection problems: Try something simple first, such as running
xclock - this is a fair display connection test (you don't have to live
without WM on VAXstation), and only after you have a reliable display
connection, go to uwm. 

If the connection is NOT the problem, have you
visitied .Xdefaults and .mwmrc ? You will have to move some of the resources
into your VAX setup - VMS DECwindows SessionManager loads your DECwindows
preferences into X server's RESOURCE_MANAGER property, which overrides
any application-specific class/user defaults from your Ultrix client. 

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