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From: alan@cogswell.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Alan S. Mazer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView 2.0 bug (?) -- foreground and background colors
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Date: 5 Oct 90 15:38:59 GMT
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In article <9010041702.AA25572@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, cflatter@ZIA.AOC.NRAO.EDU (Chris Flatters) writes:
| > As far as I can tell, XView panels ignore the Window.Color.Background
| > resource described in the XView man page. They also ignore the
| > -Wb and -g command line options.
| 
| Yes.  This is not a bug.  XView panels take their background colour from
| OpenWindows.WindowColor.  This is so that they blend in with the window
  ^^^^^^^^^^^
| decoration applied by OPEN LOOK window manager.

Why OpenWindows.WindowColor?  What does OpenWindows have to do with
anything?  Not all XView code is run under OpenWindows, right?
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