Hi,
I have tried couple of open source X-emulation software like Xterm and Mobaxterm to connect to XPP. While using both these I am able to open XPP Pathfinder but not able to open any division in edit or view mode.
Any inputs, what I may be doing wrong or missing on something?
Just a follow-up to note that starting with the XPP 9.2.0 release that the XyView and Sdedit (and other GUI) applications became GTK-based (instead of Motif-based) on the Linux and Windows platforms.
Jonathan Dagresta
SDL XPP Engineering
Jonathan Dagresta
RWS Group/XPP Development
That is indeed the best resolution to this problem. Just upgrade to 9.2 and forget about all possible trouble with X-windows and Xwindows emulators. It has haunted us long enough :-)
Or better yet, we (SDL) would recommend upgrading to XPP 9.4.
I need a better understanding of how GTK works. Can you point me to anything I could read? Does the XPP documentation include everything I would need to know? Would an XPP power user currently using Windows and Exceed to connect to a Linux XPP server, even need Exceed in XPP 9.4? We do a lot of work on the command line, we also use nedit a lot (yeah, old). (Related question: good Linux nedit replacement recommendations, i.e. with nice syntax highlighting, notepad++ niceness or similar?)
Jay,
When you have a Linux based XPP server and you use Windows workstations, you will still need something like Exceed in order to connect to your XPP server from your workstation and run xzplorer, xyview, nedit, etc...
It is only in a pure Windows environment (server and workstation) that you no longer need a X-window emulator, as the xyview and co (all that was Motif based before) is now GTK based.
PS: best to open up a new question regarding your nedit replacements
Jay,
When you have a Linux based XPP server and you use Windows workstations, you will still need something like Exceed in order to connect to your XPP server from your workstation and run xzplorer, xyview, nedit, etc...
It is only in a pure Windows environment (server and workstation) that you no longer need a X-window emulator, as the xyview and co (all that was Motif based before) is now GTK based.
PS: best to open up a new question regarding your nedit replacements
Thanks, Bart! I misunderstood that the more recent part of the discussion on this thread was about Windows only. I realize that XPP has been available on WIndows for a bazillion years, but I've done zero research on it! (I've had no reason to.) I only know it's why we had to change SD file names from colons to underbars. :-) I actually never knew you needed an X-emulator in a pure Windows environment prior to XPP 9.2! That's crazy!
Wow Jay, you are dating yourself remembering the colon to underbar conversion. That was IPS 6.0.
I remember that change as if it was yesterday - so many changes (improvements) since.
Yes, I am that old, Steve! But then I remember Uniplus+ (Unisoft), and I also know why XYV_EXECS points to "xz" and not "xy" (it's not Xzvision).
I'm not sure if it's a boast or an admission to say that I was responsible for both the ":" and the "z" in xz, alljobz and sd_liz.
Marc,
I would call it an admission + a serious dating (even more than Jay's) at the same time
IPS 6.0 aka the shortest lived major release in the history of the product?
(actually it was only half a major release as only available for "new" installations running on Windows)
That's right, Bart. Most of us didn't have to deal with it until 7.0
I thought the mention of Uniplus+ would date me, Bart. I can still see the the word printing on the dot-matrix console terminal at system boot-up, like it was yesterday. SVR3 for the Motorola 68000 series.
Marc, I knew about xz, but not the ":" !
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