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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!mtu.edu!bacon
- From: bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon)
- Subject: Re: Sun's GUI and OS mistakes (was Re: LX and SUNOS 4.x)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.014008.3857@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <16017@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Dec21.184048.8933@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <16031@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:40:08 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <16031@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>Tried this for a while, the biggest problem was dismissing popups (which of
- >>course came up without pins) without killing the primary application. This
- >>could just have been my ignorance and might have been avoidable with some
- >>option in .twmrc, but there were other problems with the appearance and
- >>behavior of the windows etc.
- >
- >Sounds like it's a window-manager problem then - not entirely
- >surprising. Maybe if the ICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCM expands a bit, it'll be
- >possible to have the OPEN LOOK toolkits in question work better with
- >non-OL window managers, if they're ICCCCCCCCCCCCCM-compliant.
- >
- >I think there is a way of getting ".twmrc" to dismiss popups; you might
- >check out the "comp.windows.open-look" FAQ - I think you bind something
- >to "f.delete" and use that to dismiss the popup. Dunno about the other
- >problems you mention, as I don't have enough details....
-
- I second the notion of using f.delete - as far as I've ever seen, that's
- all that's required.
-
- We regularly run openlook apps under twm. Actually, we often run
- pretty much everything under everything - motif, OL, and more generic
- X apps under OW3 and R5/twm. there have been a few minor quirks, but
- nothing we haven't been able to beat without undue effort.
-
- -bacon
-
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- = Jeffery Bacon General Systems Hack, Michigan Technological University =
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