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From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Subject: IBM aixterm and icccm compliance
Message-ID: <551@pan.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 89 07:07:21 GMT
References: <8908052113.AA13136@xll.austin.ibm.com>
Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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In article <8908052113.AA13136@xll.austin.ibm.com> dave@xll.AUstin.ibm.COM (David Erb) writes:
>
>This change to IBM's aixterm was added on an X-Windows update last January.
>IBM's aixterm now checks to see if aixwm is running.  If not, aixterm
>will behave as an ICCCM window manager expects--such as setting its
>window name, not creating its own title bar, and removing all intelligence
>from its icons.

Has anyone else received this update?  Does anyone else have a version
of aixterm that behaves in this way?  The IBM support people here swear
that I have the latest updates for X, and my aixterm definitely doesn't
behave this way.

Perhaps, when people inside IBM insist on defending the RT and AIX by
talking about "updates" from some time ago, they could help us all by
giving the official PTF number, so those of us on the outside know what
to ask IBM support for.  It would certainly shorten the weekly game of
40-questions...

jw