Applications That Run With the Solaris X Server

You can run the following kinds of applications with the Solaris X server:

• Applications written with the following toolkits:

  • OpenWindows toolkits: OLIT and XView

  • Motif toolkit

  • Xt toolkit

• Applications written for the X protocol

• SPARC OpenWindows Version 3 X11 applications compiled under SunOS 4.0/4.1 and compatible releases

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  Note –

  The OpenWindows Version 3 X11 applications must adhere to the system Binary Compatibility Package.

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• Applications written with the following interfaces are not supported:

  • TNT, NeWS, and XVPS

  • SunView, SunWindows, and Pixrect

Supported X11 Applications

The Solaris X server supports the following client applications available from the X Consortium. These clients are also included as part of the Solaris environment.

• xterm terminal emulator

• twm window manager

• xdm display manager

• bitmap bitmap editor

• xfd font display utility

• xauth access control program

• xhost access control utility

• xrdb resource control program

  xset user preference setting program

• xsetroot root window appearance setting utility

• xmodmap keyboard control utility

• xlsfonts server font listing utility

• xfontsel font selection utility

• xlswins window listing utility

• xwininfo window information utility

• xlsclients client applications information utility

• xdpyinfo server information display utility

• xprop window and font properties utility

Unsupported Applications

The following are some applications and libraries, all of which are available from the X Consortium, that run on the server but are not distributed or supported by Sun:

• Andrew, InterViews

• The uwm and wm window managers

• The CLX Common Lisp interface

• contrib X Consortium clients