any way to not require placing of window ?

[William Hooper]

Elaine . said:
> hi
> I'm running vnc on a headless solaris 8 server to give
> it a fake display cos oracle application server needs
> it for reports server (it shoves up a window about the
> queue). Anyway on vnc it comes up with grey lines
> round it and needs it to be placed on screen - the
> server won't start otherwise. Unfortunately this
> doesn't make it the auto-start script it needs to be.
> Is there a setting in vnc so it would just accept the
> window thats been opened without needing placing ?
> thanks.
> Elaine

I believe you are describing a function of the twm window manager (that
VNC uses by default).  Either

$ man twm

or change window managers.

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William Hooper