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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: OSF statements about OPEN LOOK
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Date: 22 Sep 90 07:14:51 GMT
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In article <999@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com>, emike@cpg.trs.reuter.com (E. Mike Durbin) writes:
> The problem is that XView applications DEPEND on the window manager dismissing
> popup, and even worse, killing the application.  For example, Sun's Calendar
> Manager will use a popup window for entering an appointment.  With out OLWM,
> there is NO WAY do dismiss this popup if it defaults to being push pinned in!
> In X, if you zap any client window, XLIB DOES AN EXIT, killing the entire
> application.

It uses the ICCCM Delete.  In TWM that's the "f.delete" action, a window
manager that can't gennerate the delete action in most likely broken...

(I use OL stuff under TWM all the time, mabie some day I'll hack TWM to
understand a few of the useful or interesting OLWM things into it, but
so far I have done nothing to make OL and TWM talk nicely and it works
out Ok)
-- 
           stripes@eng.umd.edu          "Security for Unix is like
      Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The          Mutitasking for MS-DOS"
      "The dyslexic porgramer"                  - Kevin Lockwood
"Isn't that a shell script?"                                    - D. MacKenzie
"Yeah, kinda sticks out like a sore thumb in the middle of a kernel" - K. Lidl