xdm xkernel and olwm greetings we have a network of sun workstations running sunos and openwindows of these are sun s that we have modified to run seth robertson s xkernel image effectively turning them into xterminals we use xdm x r to manage the displays when we had xkernel machines things worked fine but when we installed more last weekend we appear to have found a weakness with clients to sparc the sparc window manager is eventually getting munged let me try to be precise the user sitting at the machine that does all the actual processing for these xterminals is having control of his keyboard and screen yanked away when this was the department chair it was kind of cute we poked at xdm for a few days and are satisfied that it is not at fault our current theory is that olwm the sun version was not meant for running multiple copies on one machine which is what happens the console user runs olwm and every xterminal logged in has olwm running on the xterminal server has anyone had any prior experience with this sort of behavior can anyone shoot obvious holes in this theory how about obvious gimmes and of course any ideas on how to solve it any ideas are greatly appreciated greg owen gowen forte cs tufts edu gowen jade tufts edu systems programmer and ta tufts university computer science dept personal info gcs go d p c m m s g w w x email for explanation if interested
