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DECwindows

Post by martin » Mon May 08, 2023 5:33 pm

I may be being particularly thick here, but is DECwindows supported fully or only as a client interface? For my other VMs a graphical window can be opened in which the VM runs a virtual graphical terminal. OpenVMS starts with a graphical window, but then suspends it and switches to the serial console. Will DECwindows server run in the graphical window (ie am I misconfigured) or will it only run as client applications in a PC based server?
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Re: DECwindows

Post by dmjb » Mon May 08, 2023 6:00 pm

There is no text or graphical console on x86 at present. The only way to access DECwindows is through X forwarding. The CDE desktop seems to be broken at the moment, but I've been able to access the older Motif desktop with X forwarding over SSH.

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