[tex-live] xdvi and lixbm

Stefan Ulrich stefan-ulrich.nntp at zen.co.uk
Mon May 10 23:31:49 CEST 2004


Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:

>     OpenMotif, not with LessTif. I guess it depends on how much space
> Sadly, OpenMotif is not free software, so we can't use it for TeX Live.
> Its license does not allow usage on non-free operating systems, such as
> Solaris, and has other restrictions.
> http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/faq.html

OK, I wasn't aware of that.

> LessTif is free, but you say that doesn't work with current xdvi.

It has quite a few bugs that make it functionally inferior
to the Xaw variant; see
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/xdvi/xdvik/texk/xdvik/LESSTIF-BUGS?rev=1.2.2.1
for details.

> So, are we left with Xaw, or are there other choices?

No, Xaw is the only left.

Best,
Stefan



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