Colour Digital Logo on DECwindows Login - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jul 2010

That is indeed odd.  I have a DEC PWS running OpenVM S8.3 with
DecWindows and Motif... I've been meaning to get it finished and wired
into the home network.  As it just so happens, I just won a sealed
copy of Exceed on EBay, which I could try out...
This won't happen immediately (large to-do list, plus I need to run to
Fry's for a network switch and some cable), but I'll give it a shot...
I've already warned my very-tolerant girlfriend that there's going to
be an ethernet cable running from the office down the hall to the
wireless router at the TV (I have U-Verse, so it has to be that way).
Mark
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Rob Jarratt
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
...
  I would agree that it sounds odd, but the person
telling me knows his stuff
 and this has been his experience. I suspect the SHM thing could be why it
 works on a real workstation, or perhaps it is some DEC-specific thing? I
 have a real workstation to try this on, I will have to dig it out and give
 it a go myself.
 Regards
 Rob
  -----Original Message-----
 From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
 bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
 Sent: 27 July 2010 22:34
 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
 Subject: Re: Colour Digital Logo on DECwindows Login
 On 7/27/10 5:27 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
  I am using Exceed to run an X server on my PC. I
would like it to  show a
  colour logo like in this screenshot: :
 http://toastytech.com/guis/DWlogin.gif but all I get is monochrome on  the
  login screen. A friend has suggested that you
only get colour on real
 workstations. Does anyone know how to get the colour login on Exceed? 
 ? I don't know anything about Exceed so I can't answer your specific
 question, but your friend doesn't know jack squat about X. ;) ?X
 doesn't
 "know" whether it's on a "real workstation" (whatever that is!)
or not.
 ?I've run dozens upon dozens of color X terminals.
 ? X clients (programs that interact with the user) connect to X servers
 (that control keyboards/mice/video hardware) over TCP connections,
 DECnet connections, or local sockets. ?The stuff on each end is fully
 abstracted and has no idea of how the actual protocol data is getting
 from place to place. ?The only time this changes that I'm aware of is
 when the SHM (SHared Memory) extension is present and in use. ?With
 SHM,
 clients can pass "big" data (images and such) to the X server in a much
 faster way.
 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?-Dave
 --
 Dave McGuire
 Port Charlotte, FL