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From: gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Questions about Open Look
Message-ID: <6213@melon11.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 91 15:44:02 GMT
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First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for their replies to my posting.

I receive many messages asking to forward answers, but there
were so many, I thought it would be better to let everyone
know what answers we received by following up to my own posting.


In article <6171@melon11.UUCP> gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>
>1) How can I place icons where I want them on the screen?  I put lines
>   like the following in my .xinitrc, and it doesn't seem to be making
>   a difference:
>
>	xterm -xrm "*iconGeometry: 32x32+1106+72" -geometry 80x24+610+352

The above syntax works under Open Look.  The problem I guess
I was having was using things like "*iconGeometry: 32x32-0-0", which
would place the icon off the screen.  A syntax like 32x32-50-50 would
make it appear near the upper right hand corner of the screen.

>2) How can I change the default icon?  I would like some of my xterms
>   to have different icons than the default one with the tools on it.

Also, under Open Look, you can change the default by using
-xrm "*iconPixmap: bitmapfile"

I've tested this with xterm and works great.  I haven't tried
it with other utilities yet.


>3) How can I change the root menu?  According to the man page for
>   Open Look, I create a .olwmmenu file and put my definitions in
>   there.  Well, I took the default menu file, made changes to it,
>   and nothing.  I'm still getting the default menu.

Apparently the man page we have online is old.  The 2.0 version
of Open Windows uses the file .openwin-menu as the root menu
file for Open Look instead of .olwmmenu


Once again, thanks for all your replies.


-greg


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