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

[Travis Sidelinger]

There is a livecd version of Cygwin/X here:  http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
It's autorun ready and can run from cd without installing.

Rick Troth wrote:
> Bill ...
>
> What Rob said about changing the color depth should help.
> But you also mentioned Windoze based X servers.  If you need the app
> displayed on a Microsoft system,  you might be pleased with CYGWIN/X.
> The whole CYGWIN suite has "grown up" in my estimation,  no longer
> a toy or experimental thing.  I use it for day-to-day production
> work at the office and at home.
>
> -- R;
>
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, William (Bill) Triest wrote:
>
>   
>> This is a tad OT, but google hasn't helped, and the solution may result
>> in more linux goodness, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
>>
>> 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.  For xwin32 we can run it in compatability mode with 256
>> color, and it will work, but the colors are so bad the graph is
>> unusable. If we try from an older version of xceed, 7.1, then it will
>> work and the colors are acceptable.  Exceed 7.1 is no longer supported,
>> so we're unable to buy more licenses.  If I can get it working from
>> linux, then they will install a couple Linux desktops.  Anyone have any
>> ideas on how to get it to work?  (links are greatly appreciated)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
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