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From: moss@brl.mil (Gary S. Moss (VLD/VMB) <moss>)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Conversion to virtual root (Was: Re: tvtwm and xpostit)
Keywords: tvtww, virtual root, quick fix
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Date: 6 Dec 90 21:44:25 GMT
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In article <1990Nov26.185023.18016@agate.berkeley.edu>, stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) writes:
|> 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.
Well, most problems; xprop still reports another window when the root window
is selected.  I'm using your vroot.h dated 9/7/90 and tvtwm patch level 4
under X11R4 on a Sun 3/80, SunOS 4.0.3.

I'm not saying that this is a big deal, but for completeness, it would be
nice to get it *all* to work.
-Gary