Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!janssen@parc.xerox.com From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: twm & Franz Allegro Composer Message-ID: <4821@arisia.Xerox.COM> Date: 13 Dec 89 06:48:29 GMT References: <1882@accuvax.nwu.edu> <465@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <5769@cps3xx.UUCP> Sender: news@arisia.Xerox.COM Reply-To: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) Organization: PARC.Xerox.COM Lines: 24 In-reply-to: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) In article <5769@cps3xx.UUCP>, usenet@cps3xx (Usenet file owner) writes: >Me too! We have been having no end of troubles getting twm to work >with common windows and composer in Allegro. It doesn`t trash the >system, just the Lisp program itself (the process hangs). We have the >same problem with another (very nice) manager gwm. To date, we can >only get Allegro/common windows/composer to run in either uwm (yuck) >or awm. Thanks for the help. I've run Composer quite nicely with twm (the version from expo:~ftp/contrib). In my .twmrc file, I do tell twm to not decorate Common Windows windows, using twm's NoTitle directive: NoTitle { ... "A Common Window" ... } Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen.pa@xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304