[rescue] SunOS 4.1.3 X-Windows client to modern Linux System, How?

Stefan Skoglund stefan.skoglund at agj.net
Wed Apr 21 05:31:04 CDT 2021


tis 2021-04-20 klockan 18:04 +0200 skrev Liam Proven:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 at 16:26, john ferguson <jferg977 at aol.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Comrades,
> > 
> > I'm sitting at a desk which has a modern Ubuntu System underneath
> > in a
> > big tower and a SPARCstation10 on top with the monitors atop the
> > Sparc.B
> 
> A caveat nobody else has mentioned:
> 
> Depending on just how moden your Ubuntu system is, you could be
> running GNOME on Wayland instead of X.org. If you have Wayland then I
> think all these instructions about `xhost +` and so on won't work at
> all.

Something else:
if the X11 application is only programmed to use a PseudoColor, it wont
work at my machine (XWayland only provides DirectColor and Truecolor
visuals.)


That was one problem which i experienced when trying use a linux x11
server from an app on a AIX 4 machine (it was Netscape.)


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