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- From: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph)
- Subject: Re: HP-VUE attitude towards X resources
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.102728@roper.mc.ti.com>
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- Organization: Texas Instruments / Attleboro Mass / USA
- References: <1993Jan5.234245.18765@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:27:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.234245.18765@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) writes:
- |> Numerous problems with GUI applications here can be traced to the
- |> resources that HP-VUE sets in the resource manager property on the
- |> root window. Here's a partial listing:
- |>
- |> *Font: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- |> *FontList: -*-swiss*742-medium-r-normal-*-140-*-p-110-*
- |> *XmText*FontList: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- |> *XmTextField*FontList: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- |> *background: #7848A075D500
- |> *foreground: #FFFFFFFFFFFF
- |> *systemFont: -*-swiss*742-medium-r-normal-*-140-*-p-110-*
- |> *ttyModes: erase ^H intr ^C kill ^U start ^Q stop ^S swtch ^@
- |> *userFont: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- |> Vuestyle.globalFont: 2
- |> Vuestyle.timeoutScale: 10
- |> Vuewm*HighResHighColor*Five*title: five
- |> ...etc...
- |> hpterm*backgroundIsSelect: True
- |> hpterm*makeColors: shadow
- |>
- |> This cavalier overriding of background, foreground, and font resources
- |> among others plays havoc with many applications. I get calls about why
- |> such-and-such a program is behaving weirdly, and yet it looks fine when
- |> I run it on the same machine and display it on the Sun. Eventually I
- |> trace it down to this problem. Personally I don't see the need for it; I
- |> haven't set resources this way on the Sun since X11R3.
- |>
- |> I'm about to recommend that everyone put "xrdb -remove" in their
- |> startup scripts, unless someone can come up with a way of doing the
- |> same thing on a per-application basis (*without* remaking the application)?
- |>
- |> --
- |> This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
- |> brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
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- I am having similar problems with HP-Vue. I have had less than satisfactory
- response form HP on this issue. This severly impact interoperability of the HP
- machines.
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- Doesn't HP like their machines and want to sell more of them?
- --
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- Regards.
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- Don Rolph a722756@pan.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-699-1263
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