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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: XtNinput resource for Shell widgets
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Date: 30 Jun 89 20:48:48 GMT
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**** NOTE to non-readers of the documentation ****

If your application expects user input, then you had better set
an appropriate value for the XtNinput resource per the ICCCM.

For most applications, the appropriate value is True.

There are more and more window managers coming on-line that
will refuse to pass keyboard or mouse input to your application
if you don't explicitly say you want it.

This is documented (almost) in the Xt Intrinsics spec, in the
ICCCM, and in the short "Converting Widgets from R2 to R3" paper.

Note that the Xt spec has _always_ said that the default value
was False (although it really wasn't in R2).