x-windows + startup

[Michael Portuesi]

In article <3979 at uc.msc.umn.edu>, ken at ag.msc.edu (Ken Chin-Purcell) writes:
|> BTW, with IRIX 4.0 it looks like SGI will implement a 'normal'
|> X startup sequence (no need to hand start X with xinit, no more
|> NeWS lurking beneath your noble X windows). :)

Well, actually NeWS sits on top of X windows in IRIX 3.x.  It serves as
an X window manager for X clients, and does its event handling ahead of
the X server.

m.

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