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From: montnaro@moose.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro)
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Subject: multi-column mwm menus
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Date: 20 Aug 90 15:50:36 GMT
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I asked:

    Is there a way to define multi-column menus in mwm?

to which David Lewis responded

    Use the resource manager to affect the widget:
	    $ mwm 	-xrm '*_MwmSystemMenu_.numColumns: 2' 
		    -xrm '*_MwmSystemMenu_.packing: pack_column'

This worked fine in .Xdefaults. I just replaced "_MwmSystemMenu_" with the
names of the menus I wanted to be two-dimensional, and presto!

	Mwm*RemoteMenu.numColumns:	2
	Mwm*RemoteMenu.packing:		pack_column
	Mwm*ToolsMenu.numColumns:	2
	Mwm*ToolsMenu.packing:		pack_column

The only ill effect is that f.title and f.separator fields come out a bit
strange.  For instance, they don't span multiple columns, so you have to
insert them twice, plus they don't always show up where you think they
should. The simple fix there was to remove titles and separators from
multi-column menus.

I haven't tried this for menus with pull-right items.