Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu!garyf From: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: DecWindows (and how to get around them)?? Keywords: DecWindows, xcons, ... Message-ID: <1989Sep30.143118.15880@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 14:31:18 GMT Reply-To: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu () Organization: NCSA - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 37 Ok folks, I am tired of the barrage of console messages scribbling all over my screen. I am not going to run decwindows, no way, no how. Xcons won't work (as mentioned here many times before, it messes up the color server). Heck, dxterm is 4 times the size of xterm. I only have a little 9meg VsII/GPX, what does dec want? All I really want to do is prevent the messages from clobbering my root window all the time, and perhaps actually see them (sometimes they could be important). Is everyone else out there in ultrix land merely accepting this problem?? Or, (worse yet IMHO) is everyone bowing down and swallowing the garbage dec is feeding us about having to run decwindows to solve the problem? After all, xcons WAS on the supported UWS2.0 tape! I would GREATLY appreciate some constructive help in solving this problem. If ANYONE knows how it can be done (heck, SUN kept TIOCCONS in /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h, why couldn't dec do it?), PLEASE let me know. One other question: how do those folks who run strict MIT server/ clients solve this problem? I thought I heard xdm metioned a while back, but after looking at it I became unconvinced that it solved the problem. Any clues?? Thanks for any and all help (and for letting me take a small pot shot at dec). And as always, this is MERELY my opinion, not that of anyone I am associated with. -- Gary Faulkner National Center for Supercomputing Applications - University of Illinois Internet: garyf@mehlville.ncsa.uiuc.edu Disclaimer: I've only stated my opinion, not anyone elses.