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From: masa@hpsciz.HP.COM (Masayoshi Habu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OpenLook and Motif
Message-ID: <1310003@hpsciz.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 90 23:18:41 GMT
References: <1990Oct10.133345.4906@kodak.kodak.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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I have a SPARCstation with OpenWindows 2 on which a couple of OPENLOOK-based
applications (like SUN's file manager) and a Motif-based application (called
IC-CAP) running together. So I don't see any major problems in using two
different GUI applications except for remembering two styles :-(

The difference comes in to play when one of the applications communicates
with a "window manager". A window manager is just another X application,
but both OPEN LOOK and Motif provides their own window manager to manipulate
X clients which is built on the toolkit. As you know, there are OPEN LOOK
toolkit and Motif toolkit in this world.

So my Motif application dies when I try to expand its window with the "Full"
window menu provided by the OPEN LOOK window manager (olwm). But this is a
minor problem that I can avoid because I don't need to expand it really.

Masa Habu