Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!solbourne.COM!toml From: toml@solbourne.COM Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Styleguide questions Message-ID: <9008171721.AA10794@ninja.Solbourne.COM> Date: 17 Aug 90 10:21:23 GMT References: <9008171625.AA26683@osf.osf.org> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 > > Unless of course if you are in a motif menu bar, in which case button 1 > > gives you menus > Note that this is probably true for any consistent GUI, by semantics > of cascade buttons. When you select a cascade parent (with select > button), its semantics are to display the cascade, namely the pull > down. > This is different of calling a menu about an object. The semantics of > pressing the menu button on a menu bar would be to call a menu on the > menubar, for example a menu to change the colors/fonts in the menu bar. I understand the select semantics, but from a novice user's point of view, menus come up on different mouse buttons depending on the context. They won't care about semantics, they want to be able to find their menus. > > or if you are in the mwm title bar where button 2 gives you menus. > This is not mwm default behavior. You or someone else has "customized" > the button bindings to implement this behavior... I'm not familiar with how to customize mwm but I would guess that the following lines in my /usr/lib/X11/system.mwmrc file are causing the problems. > Buttons PointerButtonBindings > { > frame|icon f.raise > frame|icon f.post_wmenu > frame|icon f.lower I did not get Motif/mwm from OSF. I got binaries from ICS, perhaps they changed the default bindings. Can anyone send me a system.mwmrc file they got from OSF? I would like to run mwm in its default configuration. Thanks, Tom LaStrange Solbourne Computer Inc. ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM 1900 Pike Rd. UUCP: ...!{boulder,sun}!stan!toml Longmont, CO 80501