[860] in OS/2_Discussion
Re: XFree86
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Woojin Lee)
Wed Mar 13 10:56:36 1996
From: wlee@ai.mit.edu (Woojin Lee)
To: abester@dancy-online.mit.edu (Abram Dancy)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 10:55:43 -0500 (EST)
Cc: os2partners@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9603130805.AA1233@athena.mit.edu> from "Abram Dancy" at Mar 13, 96 00:05:43 am
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> FYI, The Alpha version of XFree86 was released several days ago. This
> allows you to run X programs under OS/2 in a full-screen session (so
> you can switch between X and PM, just like FS WinOS/2 and PM). I've
> got it running on my machine now, and it looks pretty good. It may be
> a bit slower than XFree86 under Linux, but I'm not sure. (Certainly
> the advantage of not needing to reboot to run X offsets this!)
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> Abram
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Hi, Abram.
I have xfree running on my machine here, and so far it's great.
BTW, do you know of any xprogram we can run on XFree86/os2 other than
the ones that came with the downloaded files?
Anyway, I believe it's little slow because it still has lots of debugging
code in it.
Also, here's a tip I've got from Lars Olofsson <larso@mdstud.chalmers.se>
on running xprogram remotely and having it displayed on your machine...
It works great.
1. Start telnetpm and log on to your remote unix machine.
2. do setenv DISPLAY youros2machine:0
3. startx and do xhost remoteunixmachine (from os/2's XFree)
4. from telnetpm, do xterm
5. xterm of remote machine should appear locally on your os/2's X.
Have fun.
Woojin
