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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Conversion to virtual root (Was: Re: tvtwm and xpostit)
Keywords: tvtww, virtual root, quick fix
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.185023.18016@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 26 Nov 90 18:50:23 GMT
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In article <1990Nov26.163259.2367@cs.rochester.edu>, becker@cs.rochester.edu (Tim Becker) writes:
|> In article <3704@rwthinf.UUCP> norbert@rwthinf.UUCP (Norbert Kiesel) writes:
|> >Hello,
|> >I'm using tvtwm patchlevel 4 and xpostit. After creating and saving some
|> >notes and leaving tvtwm, the next time all notes appear in the upper left
|> >corner of my screen. This doesn't happen with tvtwm patchlevel 3.
|> 
|> I "fixed" xpostit to handle this better.  I'm not the xpostit author,
|> so I'm a little uncomfortable sending out a fix to the program.
|> However, if anyone wants my diff for this, send me a note and I'll
|> mail it.

My vroot.h header file also did a good job at getting xpostit to work again
under tvtwm.  It is a general quick fix to many programs that fail to work 
under tvtwm in their original form.  It currently works well with 
xwd, xprop, xplaces, xpostit, xphoon, xaqua, xfroot, etc.

The problems with xwd and xprop (only reporting non-sticky windows) seem
to have gone away with the recent tvtwm patch4.

I put vroot.h in ~ftp/contrib on expo.lcs.mit.edu.

-- 
Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
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