Before upgrading server machines from Sol8 to 9 I've jumpstarted
Solaris 9/04 plus current patches on my Blade to test and play with.

For several reasons I'd like to continue using OpenWindows or alike
instead of CDE. Several people suggested installing the old OW packages.

I tried the minimal approach of copying my olvwm and a stripped down
version of the openwin start script over to Sol9. openwin basically
fires up X11 by issuing "xinit -- /usr/openwin/X :0". Everything works
fine except two things that puzzle me (as a non-X11-buff):

1) Even when setting "m64config -depth 24" the olvwm (and others) come
up with only 8 bit color depth whereas CDE starts with a truecolor
visual. But both use the same X-server, so what's missing?

2) Applications don't find the 6x12 font ("trying fixed instead"), but
the font is there and is included in the font path as well as in the
fonts.dir etc. stuff. xterm -fn 7x13 or -fn 6x10 or -fn 6x13 works.
Ideas?

Uwe


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