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From: sloot@kub.nl (Ko van der Sloot)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Problems with DEC's Motif Window Manager for VMS
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Date: 6 Sep 90 10:36:51 GMT
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|> / hplred:comp.windows.x.motif / ari@ursa.UUCP (Ari Rabinowitz) /  1:17 pm  Aug 15, 1990 /

|> 
|> 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.  I find this
|> particularly dangerous for my users, who constantly have people putting
|> papers on their desks and accidently moving their mice.  For this reason,
|> I am refusing to let my users use mwm, although management wants them to
|> for standardization reasons.
|> 
|> 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.
|> 
|> 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?
|> 
|> Any help with all of this would be greatly appreciated.
|> Ari
|> -- 

And
4) I seem to be unable te get any other icon then the stupid square thing.
I have tried all kind of settings of the iconImage recource to no avail.
What am i doing wrong ? Or is it just another Dec feature ?

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Ko van der Sloot                                               sloot@kub.nl
Institute for Language Technology and Artificial Intelligence       (ITK)
Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
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