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From: davisp@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Palmer Davis)
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Subject: Re: VOM Look
Keywords: Motif, twm, green fuzzy bananas
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Date: 31 Jul 90 01:22:59 GMT
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In article <9007271840.AA15107@milton.u.washington.edu> donn@MILTON.U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Donn Cave) writes:
>I hope they will also consider screen "real estate" as a resource.  Most of
>the window managers I've seen want to add considerably to the size of a window
>forcing me to overlap windows that could otherwise be adjacent.  Twm, to its
>credit, allows me to control the size of these decorations.  Window managers
>from the "look fascism" camps aren't generally so flexible.
>

We used to have this very objection about Motif until we bothered to read the
manual page.  The "resize handles" that add so much thickness to a Motif window
can be toned down (or up, if you're a closet Open Look fan :-) ) or turned off
completely, as can the other controls Motif displays.  If you feel particularly
energetic (which we did), you can reconfigure Motif completely to get the feel
you're used to from twm.  We haven't bothered much with Open Look (for obvious
reasons), so I can't say for sure if you can tweak the appearance of their 
frames.  The copyright message in the Open Look sources saying "you can't call
it Open Look if you change *anything* about it" makes me rather pessimistic
about this, though.

-- Palmer Davis --


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