XDarwin/Apple X11 window mgr vs. HP OmniBack II GUI and HP CommandView SDM GUI...
XDarwin/Apple X11 window mgr vs. HP OmniBack II GUI and HP CommandView SDM GUI...
- Subject: XDarwin/Apple X11 window mgr vs. HP OmniBack II GUI and HP CommandView SDM GUI...
- From: "John J. Francini" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 03:56:39 -0500
Hello,
I've been using XDarwin on MacOS X for a while now, first with
OroborOSX and now with the new X11 Apple distribution. Among other
things, I'm a sysadmin of a herd of HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX systems,
using a Power Mac G4 with dual heads to display all sorts of windows
from the systems.
In general, the Apple window manager is much better at dealing with
commercial X11 apps than OroborOSX. However, there's still a couple
of apps that cause me fits:
1. The GUI for HP's backup product, OmniBack II. This uses an
interface that looks like it was a direct (and cheesy) port from
Windows, complete with File Manager-style expandable/collapsible
lists.
What happens is that whenever window elements get re-painted -- such
as when you click on an expansion plus-sign, the cursor will get
thrown either all the way to the right edge of the screen or
(infrequently) the top-left corner of the current screen. You have
to drag the cursor back to where it was. Over and over again. This
gets old really fast.
The app does not exhibit this behavior when displayed on a Tru64 UNIX
5.x box. I have not tried it on a Linux box (XFree86's native
habitat), because I don't have one handy in the office. I suspect
it's whatever package they use that allows the app to be coded for
Windows and run under X11 -- it and either the window manager or
XDarwin aren't getting along well.
2. The GUI for HP's midrange storage management product, CommandView
SDM (Storage Display Manager). While this doesn't look like a cheesy
Windows port, it has its own not-quite-as-annoying quirks. Upon
starting the program, called "Launcher", it draws its logo window on
the right-hand monitor (where the OS X menu bar is), and then it
draws a teeny, tiny window in the top left corner of the left-hand
monitor, just large enough to grab the resize button and expand it to
its intended size, whereupon it reveals its contents.
The Launcher's job is to show all the manageable storage units on the
system and launch subsidiary apps to manage each one by
double-clicking on icons.
WHen I double-click on an icon, the subsidiary app launhes, this time
displaying its miniscule window on the right-hand monitor. Resizing
it to a normal size allows me full access to the app's functions,
which operate normally, if a bit slowly. (I think it's sending whole
bitmaps across the wire rather than drawing primitives, which
explains the slowness. It's slow on my Tru64 box as well, but
doesn't display the incorrect window-sizing artifacts.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
John Francini
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