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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Commonly asked questions (was: Xt toolkit and dec3100 wm)
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Date: 6 Nov 89 17:05:11 GMT
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>> ...you must set
>> XtNinput to True on top level shells that expect input.

> As I understand it, the "default behaviour", which is currently False,
> is changing to True, so toolkits written -after- R4 do not need to
worry about this as they did in R3.

No decision has yet been reached, so I wouldn't rely upon such a
change being adopted.  In any case, widget sets have always had
the option to change their own default.  (That's one reason why
people are getting into trouble, too :-).