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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: A few OpenLook questions ...
- Keywords: openlook, resources, lame
- Message-ID: <14496@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 18:33:42 GMT
- References: <BtHCzJ.LF@micromuse.co.uk> <1992Aug25.114410.8413@cas.org> <23125@sybase.sybase.com>
- Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com
- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >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,
-
- What configuration options are missing? (Note, for example, that the
- colors of application windows are, as far as I know, controlled by a
- window manager only to the extent that the window manager manages color
- maps.)
-
- It doesn't have a humongous ".olwmrc" file with zillions of options.
- For some, that's a disadvantage. For others, it's an advantage....
-
- >that I'm running twm on top of the NeWS server.
-
- (Actually, you're running it on top of the X11/NeWS server. As far as
- "twm" is concerned, it's running on top of an X11 server, and the only
- way in which "olwm" sees the NeWS side of the server is that it has an
- option to squirt PostScript to the server *if* it's an X11/NeWS server.)
-
- >Having a few resource specifications like:
- >
- >Font.Name: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
- >scrollbar.jumpCursor: True
- >
- >seems rather shortsighted.
-
- Neither of those have anything to do with the window manager, in the
- general case. Neither "olwm" *nor* "twm" have scrollbars, as far as I
- know, and the only font specifications that the window manager pays
- attention to should be font specifications for window manager menus and
- title bars/icons.
-
- And what changes would make it not "shortsighted"?
-
- >The other shortcoming is the NeWS server's
- >problems with font specifications like -*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-
-
- What problems are those?
-
- >and the requirement that ALL dashes be included.
-
- Do other X11 servers not require that all dashes be included?
-