Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!gumby!smaug!cs.hope.edu!jipping
From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xbiff -shape ???
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.124052.20957@cs.hope.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 90 12:40:52 GMT
References: <1990Dec21.220535.19430@swbatl.sbc.com>
Sender: news@cs.hope.edu
Reply-To: jipping@cs.hope.edu
Organization: Hope College Dept. of CS
Lines: 18

Mark Horstman [314-235-3417] writes:
> I can't seem to get the shape option to work on xbiff.  The way
> it looks I should be able to have a non-rectangular window that
> looks like... a mailbox for example, as long as I provide a mask
> for the bitmap.  How come I can't get it to work? 
> 
> I'm running twm/tvtwm/vtwm/olwm/mwm X11R4 fix-18 on a SS1 with 
> SunOS 4.1.1.

Are you running the X11R4 server from MIT...or Sun's OpenWindows?  Sun
does not implement the shape extension in the 2.0 release.  

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)

		"Peelings...nothing more than peelings..."
                                 -- Gary Larsen