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From: hoyt@wreck.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Text Widgets under DECwindows
Keywords: Athena Text widget
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Date: 28 Oct 90 21:26:56 GMT
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In article <1990Oct28.165346.8712@ecn.purdue.edu>, habibi@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu
(Shidan Habibi) writes:
|> I have just moved from a networked SUNs (Sun OS 4.0.3; running twm,
|> X11 V.R4  backward compatible with R3)to
|> networked DEC 3100s (ultrix; running DecWindows, X11 R3).
|> I am attempting to run an 
|> X application on the DECS which I had developed on the SUNs.  
|> 
|> I have a specific problem.
|> 
|> 1.  When I run my application and when I type into my text 
|> widget, instead of the text appearing in my text widget,
|> it appears in the active DECterm (window).  What can I do
|> to solve this problem?

It appears from your description that the application has not accepted input
focus. Add this line to your .Xdefaults:

*input: True

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