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Enable GLX Compatibility with Older SGI clients

You can enable the -Drx.glx.sgicompatible.sessions compatibility mode to allow GLX to work with older SGI clients. With this compatibility mode enabled, the following error is no longer displayed:

* X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)

To enable the SGI compatibility mode for all sessions within X Manager

  1. Add the following option to the ALP_JAVA_OPTIONS section in the rxmgr.alp file located in C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\Reflection X.

    -Drx.glx.sgicompatible.sessions=ALL

    where ALL is case insensitive

To enable the SGI compatibility mode for a specific set of sessions

  1. Add -Drx.glx.sgicompatible.sessions option and apply it to specific sessions in the ALP_JAVA_OPTIONS section in the rxmgr.alp file located in C:\Program Files\Micro Focus\Reflection X. For example:

    -Drx.glx.sgicompatible.sessions=session1,session2,"session three"

    note

    Session names containing spaces must be enclosed in double quotes("").

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