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From: jmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XView window footer with tvtwm
Message-ID: <143959@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 90 20:36:30 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.233521.25641@anucsd.anu.oz.au>
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In article <1990Oct16.233521.25641@anucsd.anu.oz.au> gjw@anucsd.anu.oz.au writes:
>The OLWM seems to place as part of its window decoration an area at the
>bottom of each window into which an application can write text.  This is
>used, for example, by the XView mailtool and file manager.  However, such
>messages are simply lost when running TVTWM, for example, since there is
>no window decoration at the bottom of the windows.  Have I missed something
>in tvtwm that allows me to see these messages, or is this one of those
>features of XView which requires the use of OLWM/
>

Open Look frame footers will be handled by the XView frame package
instead of olwm in the next release of the xview toolkit. That means 
that footers should work regardless of the window manager you are
using, after the next release of the xview toolkit.

John McKernan.                                                     
Windows and Graphics Software, Sun Microsystems.                  jmck@sun.com