From: jacobson@fred.isgs.uiuc.edu (Russ Jacobson)
Subject: Re: MacX Window Types?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Illinois State Geological Survey
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:48:02 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.133736.12724@cs.yale.edu>, ewing-martin@CS.YALE.EDU
(Martin Ewing) wrote:
> 
> 
> Is this a good place to grouse/inquire about MacX features?
> 
> I am using MacX 1.1.7 on a IIci w/portrait monitor.  (Under A/UX 3.0,
> but I don't think that matters.)  I primarily connect to a Sun
> Sparc 2 running SunOS 4.1.1.
> 
> I usually put up a number of small information windows (xload, xclock,
> etc.) plus several big windows (xterm, xmh).  All are rootless.  The 
> problem is that I want the small windows to be "plain" or "shadowed",
> while the others should be "growable".  How can I make this happen
> automatically?
> 
> There is an "client specified" window type.  How can this be invoked
> from standard canned X applications?
> 
> As a suggestion for MacX developers (if any are out there):  Provide
> window-by-window customization of window types ala twm, etc., according
> to some parameter resource.  E.g., specifiable in the "Edit Command"
> dialog.  (And while you're at it, how about a "real" access control
> mechanism like Xsun et al.?)
> 
> This is in the category of "cosmetic nuisance".  By and large, I am
> very pleased with MacX.
> 
> I'd appreciate e-mail responses, for which I am grateful in advance!
> 
> Martin Ewing     Yale Univ. Science & Engineering Computing Facility
> ewing@yale.edu

Martin (or anyone reading this) we are evaluating MacX for a new project I
have been shifted to. I am not an expert by any means with Unix and Sun
workstations but what we are trying to do (if MacX can do it) is to display
Openwindows and menus we have defined for this on on Sun's on the Mac
display. Can this be done, or is this not a proper usage of MacX. By doing
this we hope to basically make another terminal available that displays the
Openwindows desktop on it.

If this can be done can you (or anyone else) send me some command lines I
need to invoke via MacX to display Openwindows on the Mac display?  As I
said I am not really familiar with Unix, and am just learning how
Openwindows works with X11/News on the Sun. I understand Openwindows is
running on X11/News which is its own X windows server. So can you display
the output of an Openwindows session running on a Sun on a Mac via MacX or
am is this something one cannot do? As I read the docs for Openwindows (and
we don't seem to have the X11/News Services doc that they refer to) it
almost sounds like I might be able to do what I am thinking of. But at this
point my limited knowledge and lack of any docs explaining how to do this
have stumped me.

If anyone has suggestions (I wrote you because you seem to be familiar with
using MacX) about how I might accomplish this goal hearing from you would
be very much appreciated. We are evaluating one copy of this program that
was purchased by one person in our department in order to determine if the
package will do what we want before we order a second copy. Our budget is
limited, but if this package works then we are able to buy it via a
University of Illinois group liscense. So it is fairly important to first
know if this package will do what I hope it does for connecting to our
Suns. If not then we look to a different solution I guess. Thanks for your
time!

I don't get time to read the newsgroups as much as I want lately with my
new job shift so if you (or anyone else reading this) can just send your
ideas/comments to me via email it would probably get to me sooner. I have
Eudora scanning my mail every 5 minutes so I would hear from you much
faster that way.
 
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