Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:29268 comp.windows.x.motif:502 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!decuac!ufp.dco.dec.com!murphy From: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com (Rick Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Problems with DEC's Motif Window Manager for VMS Message-ID: <1990Aug20.155036@ufp.dco.dec.com> Date: 20 Aug 90 20:32:53 GMT References: <6405@ursa.UUCP> Sender: guest@decuac.DEC.COM Reply-To: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com Followup-To: comp.os.vms Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Landover MD Lines: 56 Sorry to followup the followup, but the original question appears to have expired on my news server.. In article , yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: |> 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. I'm not having this problem, but I use 'pointer' keyboardFocusPolicy. |> |> > 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). Mwm.wMenuButtonClick2: false works for me, too. |> |> > 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? |> It's not implemented; Basically since the session manager starts the window manager without a CLI. There's nothing available to run programs. (spawn won't work..). Send me mail if you want to have a look at my DECW$XDEFAULTS. -Rick -- Rick Murphy, WA1SPT/4 Digital Customer Center, Landover, MD Domain: murphy@ufp.dco.dec.com -or- murphy@ufp.enet.dec.com Bang: decwrl!ufp.enet!murphy Ding: (301) 306-2985 Disclaimer: This nonsense came from an AI program written in TECO. Ignore it.