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instruc...@gmail.com
Dec 23, 2014, 4:00:21 AM12/23/14
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Hello everybody,
I'm having a strange issue trying to do remote DECwindows from my virtual-vax running OpenVMS 7.3. I am using xming and/or VcXsrv on windows to attach to the VMS X client. I create a display on OpenVMS, start DECW$STARTLOGIN.EXE and I can log in to the machine, but I can not drag any windows around, resize, etc. If I run xming in multi-window mode it works (with each decwindows window encased in their own MS Windows window) but its not really what I'm after.
From my unix experience, this would seem to me like the window manager isn't running on the virtual vax and and when running in a single window in xming I don't have a window manager there either, so the windows don't really work. But... I didn't think that was possible with DECwindows.
I also tried using the XDM server in TCPIP 5.3, I get the same thing.
If anybody has any ideas let me know,
Thanks
Bill S.
Minneapolis, MN
I'm having a strange issue trying to do remote DECwindows from my virtual-vax running OpenVMS 7.3. I am using xming and/or VcXsrv on windows to attach to the VMS X client. I create a display on OpenVMS, start DECW$STARTLOGIN.EXE and I can log in to the machine, but I can not drag any windows around, resize, etc. If I run xming in multi-window mode it works (with each decwindows window encased in their own MS Windows window) but its not really what I'm after.
From my unix experience, this would seem to me like the window manager isn't running on the virtual vax and and when running in a single window in xming I don't have a window manager there either, so the windows don't really work. But... I didn't think that was possible with DECwindows.
I also tried using the XDM server in TCPIP 5.3, I get the same thing.
If anybody has any ideas let me know,
Thanks
Bill S.
Minneapolis, MN
cme...@gmail.com
Dec 23, 2014, 8:51:14 AM12/23/14
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On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:00:21 AM UTC-5, instruc...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm having a strange issue trying to do remote DECwindows from my virtual-vax running OpenVMS 7.3. I am using xming and/or VcXsrv on windows to attach to the VMS X client. I create a display on OpenVMS, start DECW$STARTLOGIN.EXE and I can log in to the machine, but I can not drag any windows around, resize, etc. If I run xming in multi-window mode it works (with each decwindows window encased in their own MS Windows window) but its not really what I'm after.
>
IIRC, try decw$session.exe, instead.
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm having a strange issue trying to do remote DECwindows from my virtual-vax running OpenVMS 7.3. I am using xming and/or VcXsrv on windows to attach to the VMS X client. I create a display on OpenVMS, start DECW$STARTLOGIN.EXE and I can log in to the machine, but I can not drag any windows around, resize, etc. If I run xming in multi-window mode it works (with each decwindows window encased in their own MS Windows window) but its not really what I'm after.
>
Wilm Boerhout
Dec 23, 2014, 8:58:11 AM12/23/14
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cme...@gmail.com schreef op 23-12-2014 om 14:51:
>> OpenVMS,start DECW$STARTLOGIN.EXE and I can log in to the machine,
In xming, you must use a mode that allows "foreign" (VMS) window managers.
When logged in, open a terminal (DECterm) window, and issue the command
$MC DECW$MWM.
/Wilm
> On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:00:21 AM UTC-5, instruc...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I'm having a strange issue trying to do remote DECwindows from my
>> virtual-vax running OpenVMS 7.3. I am using xming and/or VcXsrv
>> in windows to attach to the VMS X client. I create a display on
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I'm having a strange issue trying to do remote DECwindows from my
>> virtual-vax running OpenVMS 7.3. I am using xming and/or VcXsrv
>> OpenVMS,start DECW$STARTLOGIN.EXE and I can log in to the machine,
>> but I can not drag any windows around, resize, etc. If I run xming
>> in multi-window mode it works (with each decwindows window encased
>>in their own MS Windows window) but its not really what I'm after.
>>
>
> IIRC, try decw$session.exe, instead.
>
DECW$STARTLOGIN will usually create the session manager.
>> in multi-window mode it works (with each decwindows window encased
>>in their own MS Windows window) but its not really what I'm after.
>>
>
> IIRC, try decw$session.exe, instead.
>
In xming, you must use a mode that allows "foreign" (VMS) window managers.
When logged in, open a terminal (DECterm) window, and issue the command
$MC DECW$MWM.
/Wilm
instruc...@gmail.com
Dec 24, 2014, 4:37:32 AM12/24/14
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So as it turns out the window manager was running the whole time. It appears I'm just having trouble with xming. If I use MobaXterm, everything works great. I believe I'm using xming in a mode that requires a foreign window manager. Oh well, I'll keep playing with it. At least its working with MobaXterm.
Thanks for the help guys.
Thanks for the help guys.
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