X-windows emulators (update)

PGRAUPNER@DOWELANCO.COM
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 9:48:58 -0500 (EST)

Many thanks to those people who replied to me concerning Xwinnmr and remote
access using x-windows. Some of these people wanted to know what transpired
from my enquiries, and so I thought I would update the mailing list (especially
any Bruker programmers who may be reading this) with the findings. I will
concentrate on PCs as this seems to be the major problem (at least as far as I
am concerned), as I will be investigating macX later on.

The problem I had is down to the graphics set up of my machine (a Compaq
pentium with 2MB of VRAM) I was running 24bit 32K colours and it was this that
caused the hang-up. When I reduced the colours to 8-bit (256 colours), xwinnmr
runs without a hitch (thanks to M.Tolley for prompting me in this direction).
The program will run in a root window, or rootless although sometimes the
background does change when working in the x-window - this is a client problem
I think. My experience is with x-vision - I would be interested in hearing
from users of other pc x-windows emulators.

My question to the programmers of xwinnmr is, why do all the other x programs
we run here (one other NMR operating system, and numerous modelling programs)
work fine with the 24-bit colours, and xwinnmr doesn't?

Paul Graupner
DowElanco, Indianapolis