Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:29260 comp.windows.x.motif:495 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!ogicse!husc6!paperboy!yee From: yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Problems with DEC's Motif Window Manager for VMS Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 90 19:05:58 GMT References: <6405@ursa.UUCP> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 37 In-reply-to: ari@ursa.UUCP's message of 15 Aug 90 20:17:20 GMT In article <6405@ursa.UUCP> ari@ursa.UUCP (Ari Rabinowitz) writes: > I am having a great deal of difficulty with the Motif window manager > supplied by DEC for VMS. I was wondering if it is me, or MWM.EXE. > 1) Although I have keyBoardFocusPolicy set to explicit, when I select a > DECTERM window, or almost any other DECWINDOWS client, (except LSE), > the pointer must be in the window (not on the border) for the window > to get keyboard focus. The 'Active' border colors show that the window > is active, but keystrokes just go into the bit bucket. > ... You're right. This happens under Ultrix also. This may be a bug with globally active windows. > 2) I would like to disable the f.kill function for DECTERMS, since closing > one terminal seems to kill the terminal emulator job, effectively killing > all of the existing terminal sessions. I have tried many variations of > clientFunctions: -close > with no success. Could someone tell me what, if anything will work for > this. Also, wMenuButtonClick2: false does not seem to work for me. This is a bug that has been fixed in Mwm 1.0.3. I don't know if DEC has upgraded their VMS version of mwm. If they have, then they have this fix. The wMenuButtonClick2 resource works for me (on Ultrix). > 3) Dec does not seem to have implemented the f.exec function for VMS, > which is something that I and my users would find to be of great value. > Does it work in some way I haven't found, or is it really not implemented? Sound extremely useful to me too. > Ari -- = Michael K. Yee =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = OPEN Software Foundation -- 11 Cambridge Center -- Cambridge, MA 02142 = Phone: 617-621-8831 Email: yee@osf.org, uunet!osf.org!yee = "I can't give you brains, but I can give you a diploma." -- The Wizard of OZ