Wendel Dean Renner wrote: > > I would like to report several problems I have encountered with > XFree86 X/Motif in porting an application that is currently > correctly running on a Silicon Graphics computer under Irix. > On the SGI computer X/Motif is based on X11R6. > > I have observed different behavior and problems that prevent my > application from running correctly under Linux with XFree86. > > I would first like to ask. Is XFree86 a port of X/Motif code from > the Open Software Foundation to Linux, or is it a reimplementation? > If the same code is ported I would expect the same behavior. It > was my understand that to port X only a subset of the code has > to be rewritten to accommodate a particular computer architecture. > If a reimplementation, than that would explain the difference in > behavior perhaps.
I don't know much about Motif, but I know that it's not a part of XFree86. It's a separate widget library, that uses X. I believe there are two variants abailable for Linux, a re-implementation called Lesstif, and a port of the "official" Motif code since it was recently "liberated". I think there's also at least one commercial version, XI Graphics or maybe Metroworks (?). Sorry I can't help you with your specific problems. You'd do best to first find out which of these versions of Motif you have, and then find a support forum for that. I doubt your problems will be too hard to resolve, I understand that there's a very high level of compatibility among all of these. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
