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- From: petrasg@berra.cs.rpi.edu (George Petras)
- Subject: Re: A few OpenLook questions ...
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:50:23 GMT
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- In article <BtEHou.3GL@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jrpg8255@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeremy Payne ) writes:
- >Just a few questions that have been nagging me for a while now that I finally
- >got around to posting. Some quickie suggestions (probably very simple ones
- >I'm sure) would be appreciated:
- >
- >-> NOT including .openwin-menu gives you a "save workspace" option in the
- > root menu utilies section. How do I get that functionality from my own
- > .openwin-menu? i.e. what's the entry I need to make under "Utilities" MENU?
- >
-
- If this is OpenWindows Version 3 -read the man page. The default menus
- are kept in $OPENWINHOME/lib. I believe you put in the item SAVE_WORKSPACE
- right after the text for the menu entry:
-
- "Save Workspace" SAVE_WORKSPACE
-
- >-> WRT the above, where's the data from Save Workspace kept?
- >
-
- .openwin-init in your home directory.
-
- >-> How do I get cursor-up command-line recall or its equivalent in a sun-cmd
- > window?
- >
- Due to bugs in cmdtool, shells that offer command line recall, like
- "tcsh" and "bash" do not work. Use a shelltool (a cmdtool with no scrollbars)
- or xterm. The cmdtool provided with Solaris 2.0 apparently fixes this problem.
-
- >-> Is there a way to get a bitmap as the workspace root window instead of a
- > solid color provided by the Properties interface?
- >
- xsetroot will load monochrome x bitmaps into the background. The
- ftp'able program xloadimage will load color images of many formats into the
- background.
-
- >-> How can I get more control over window properties (like individual colors
- > for certain windows like in SunView), again since the Properties interface
- > doesn't seem to provide this?
- >
-
- You would probably have to provide this stuff on the command line
- with -fg or -bg. Running the X or OpenWindows program with -help will show
- you the options. There might be a way of doing this with X resources, but
- I'm not sure.
-
- gp.
-