home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!news.dell.com!uudell!pensoft!meo
- From: meo@pencom.com (Jaime Retief, IV)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Can you hide or lock your original xterm???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.054309.11857@pencom.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 05:43:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.152726.16016@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Organization: Roadkills-R-Us
- Lines: 19
-
- Out of the mouth of bucci1@donner.uucp (25853-pastor):
- >I am writting a Motif program to be run on a touch screen terminal.
- >Unfortunately, even though I can keep the user from exiting the program,
- >I cannot keep him or her from grabbing the original xterm and selecting
- >close (which logs the terminal completely off). Is there a way to hide this
- >icon or lock it without stopping the application?
-
- 1) Do away with the xterm. Start the Motif app from the .xinitrc .
- Simplest method. There's nothing sacred about that xterm.
-
- 2) From the xterm, run the Motif app in background, then lock
- the xterm (say, with a script that turns off interrupts
- and sits in a read loop.
-
- In either case, turn off mwm decorations, or just don't run
- it if you don't need it.
-
- -Miles
- meo@pencom.com
-