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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