SUMMARY: Running Open Windows apps on X terminals (olwm on NCDs)

From: Adrian Booth Computing Consultants (abcc@DIALix.oz.au)
Date: Wed Feb 26 1992 - 18:09:15 CST


SUMMARY: Running olwm and other Open Windows applications on a X terminal

I had many replies to my question, ranging from "Yes." to complete
Xsession and .xsession sample files.

In summary, it certainly IS possible to run Open Windows applications
(in particular, olwm) on an X terminal if you:

1. Set OPENWINHOME appropriately. (e.g.: OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin).

2. Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the Open Windows libraries ($OPENWINHOME/lib).

3. NCD include Open Look fonts in their NCDware (ncd/fonts/Xol).
   Ensure that these are in your font path.

        xset +fp /usr/lib/X11/ncd/fonts/Xol; xset fp rehash

   The FONTPATH variable was mentioned several times: is this an
   Open Windows-specific?

4. If you use xdm (I don't know whether this means xdm on a Sun,
   or xdm from anywhere), use the `setsid' wrapper on command tools
   to prevent hangs.

Of course, none of this will work if the application uses Display
PostScript, i.e. it isn't an X Windows application.

I have kept all of the responses I got, and will email the file to anyone
on request (requests by email please; posted requests will be silently
discarded).

Many thanks to all that replied (in no particular order):

        Alistair Veitch
        Stan Novak digi.lonestar.org!snovak
        Nick Sayer mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us
        Raymond Blaak blaak@csri.toronto.edu
        Eirikur Hjartarson eiki@nordita.dk, eiki@diku.dk
        Juergen Seeger
        Birger A. Wathne birger@sdata.no, birger@ii.uib.no
        Clive Newall clive@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU
        Rand S. Huntzinger
        David C. Tuttle dct@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu
        Alexander Dupuy dupuy@cs.columbia.edu
        Barry Margolin barmar@Think.COM
        Rodney P. Rutherford rodney@andataco.com
        Steven Ball steve@cs.anu.edu.au
        Tomas Felner tomas@adnovum.ch
        Richard Kooijman RKooijman@ET.TUDelft.NL
        Remco Bruijne rb@dasc.nl
        Marc Mazuhelli mazu@dmi.USherb.CA
        David L. Markowitz dav@gtc.com
        Jim Prescott jgp@moscom.com

Apologies if I missed anyone, or if your message arrived too late
to make it into this summary.

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