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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Querying the window mgr for transientShell resources
Keywords: transientShell vendorShell dxwm
Message-ID: <2175@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 29 Nov 89 00:06:12 GMT
References: <297@nap1.cds.wpafb.af.mil>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <297@nap1.cds.wpafb.af.mil> staatsvr@asd.wpafb.af.mil ( Vern Staats) writes:
>  Hi-Ho.  Once again I've found an opportunity to publicly display
>my ignorance (i.e. I could use some help).

Actually, you seem to have a good grasp on what's going on.

>  The DEC Toolkit Intrinsics manual claims that I can get the info I
>need from the non_title_width and title_font resources of vendorShell.
>These fields appear not to be available, no doubt because I replaced
>the DECified libraries with the Athena versions.

Yup.  The XtNnonTitleWidth and XtNtitleFont resources are supported by the
DECwindows implemntation of the Vendor shell, but not the MIT
implementation.  These are non-standard window manager properties.

>  Is there a general way to get information about resources controlled
>by the window manager that doesn't tie the application to a specific vendor?

Window manager-specific properties are by definition window manager-
specific.  If they were standardized, they would be supported by WMShell.

>Or, failing that, is there a common subset of resources of vendorShell
>supported by most vendors?

No, at least not yet.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente