running olwm under a VNC Xserver?

From: bugbear (pwomack@engage.com)
Date: 04/08/03 

From: pwomack@engage.com (bugbear)
Date: 8 Apr 2003 09:29:42 -0700

(BACKGROUND)
I'm attempting to use Java on a remote Sun Station.
I tried just using X, so that the remote java could access
my terminal.

This worked, but was incredibly slow. It appears that
Java(Swing?) is performing lots of little X commands
at a rather low level.

I tried using VNC to implement a remote
X station that I could look at using the vncviewer.

This gives dramatically better performance,
perhaps because of this:

QUOTE
-deferupdate n
    Xvnc now uses a "deferred update" mechanism which enhances
    performance in many cases. After any change to the framebuffer,
    Xvnc waits for this number of milliseconds (default 40)
    before sending an update to any waiting clients. This means
    that more changes tend to get coalesced together in a single
    update. Setting it to 0 results in the same behaviour
    as previous versions of Xvnc.

ENQUOTE

Anyway, the Java performance is acceptable.

But I can't get at
any preferences in the window manager - I've set $OPENWINHOME,
and my path has virtually every sub-directory that /usr/X and /usr/X11
has to offer. But the "preferences" pop-up in OLWM does... nothing.

My .nvc/xstartup looks like this:
#!/bin/sh

[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
olwm -2d &

Can anyone spot my obvious mistake?

     BugBear

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