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From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Decoration control from within application
Keywords: Life is hell...
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.131425@osf.org>
Date: 4 Oct 90 17:14:25 GMT
References: <27347@bellcore.bellcore.com>
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Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
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In article <27347@bellcore.bellcore.com>, rob@knopfler.leis.bellcore.com (Rob Herrera) writes:
|> I've been fiddling with MWM resources, and I've been
|> trying to change the decorations for a particular application,
|> either from within the application or from its resource 
|> file.
|> 
|> I changed the clientDecoration and clientFunctions resources in my 
|> .Xdefaults, and produced the desired effect in ALL my windows. 
|> However, I've had no success on doing it for particular applications
|> WITHOUT using the .Xdefaults.

This was still broken in 1.0.3, but it's fixed in 1.1.  Quite simply,
trying to set the decorations or functions from the application
doesn't work.  The source fix is trivial.

You're supposed to be able to set the resources mwmDecorations and
mwmFunctions using or'ed together values found in Xm/MwmUtil.h
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David Brooks				dbrooks@osf.org
Systems Engineering, OSF		uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
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