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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!petrasg
- From: petrasg@berra.cs.rpi.edu (George Petras)
- Subject: Re: A few OpenLook questions ...
- Message-ID: <bk3yr2_@rpi.edu>
- Keywords: openlook, resources, lame
- Nntp-Posting-Host: berra.cs.rpi.edu
- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <BtHCzJ.LF@micromuse.co.uk> <1992Aug25.114410.8413@cas.org> <23125@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:24:46 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- In article <23125@sybase.sybase.com> robert@cobra.sybase.com (Robert Garvey) writes:
- >
- >One of the less pleasant aspects of the tools provided with OpenLook.
- >There seems to be so little configuration available for the olwm window
- >manager, that I'm running twm on top of the NeWS server. Having a few
-
- I disagree that olwm is not configurable. Take a look at the man
- page for olwm V3 -- it's loaded with resources. Some of the things
- it does not do -- like wacky things with window colors -- is due to the fact
- that they go against the OpenLook user interface specification. A specification
- which is a result of the work done in user interface research by Sun, AT&T
- and a host of others that preceded them.
-
- gp.
-