[COLUG] [OT] Older Solaris Programs crash under newer xservers

[Jim]

"William (Bill) Triest" wrote:

> We have a lab that runs some software off of an older solaris box.
> 
> If we ssh into it and try to run the software from RHEL 4, xwin32 7.1, 
> or xceed 8.0 (the latter two being xserver for windows the OSU has had 
> site licensed) then it works initially, but when trying to display a 
> graph crashes.  

> If we try from an older version of xceed, 7.1, then it will 
> work and the colors are acceptable.  

> Anyone have any ideas on how to get it to work?  (links are greatly appreciated)

Try ssh'ing from an _old_ version of Red Hat. 

That's a bad hack. I don't know what the proper solution is. 

I've noticed that I no trouble ssh'ing from an old RH box 
into other (newer OS) boxes and running X programs, 
but ssh'ing from newer RH'ish (Centos) versions to run X apps 
doesn't work well. I don't know why. 

Jim