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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: "grabbing the screen"
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Date: 8 Nov 90 13:55:03 GMT
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> I haven't looked at 1.1 yet but programmed around this at 1.0 by doing
> a grab for system modal functionality.

Not in anything you ship, I hope.  I can not think of one reason that
would justify a system modal dialog (unless you are writing a real-time
application).  There's more than one application in the world and the
user often does multiple things at the same time.  I don't even like
Mwm's exit dialog.

				-kee