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I've just been talking to Tektronix about their new server code for
their Xterminals which now supports local clients like MWM or OLWM so
that the network local is reduced on networks of Xtermianls.  The
salesman suggested that all Tek Xterminals really run a cutdown Unix
like system really with the Xserver as one client which is how it all
works.  Now in our department we run a large number of Sun3s (50s and
60s), as Xterminals using Xkernel.  I pointed this out to the Tek
salesman and he seemed quite surprised.

He also told me that Tek would not tell me the way that local clients
worked at the moment (he didn't know I think), but that the MWM and
OLWM were the real window managers.  It occurs to me that I can do the
same job on Xkernel by rigging OLWM or TWM or whatever to be started
on the Xterminal after it has started up, and get it to communicate
with a stub window manager on the host you would normally run the
window manager on whenever it needs to read the config file or start
up a process (low network stuff.)  The best way to achieve this would
probably be a server extention (thanks Tim), so that the stub program
can instruct the server on the Xterminal to start a local client and
set up communications with it.  I don't mind this beign completely
incompatible with the system that Tek use since they don't want to
tell me theirs, (and writing more local clients for their terminals
could be hard.)  Before I go away and look hard at the Xtensions stuff
has anyone else tried this?  Does anyone know good ways to go about
it?  Will it be in X11R6 anyway? (or is it X12R1 next?)

Any information would be welcome.

Please mail me in preference and I'll summarise (to reduce bandwidth
wasted.)


-- Jon Peatfield  (Unix Network Admin)

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Telephone: (+44 223) 3-37852     Mail: J.S.Peatfield@amtp.cam.ac.uk

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