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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: root-window (DECwindows)
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.231229.22367@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 23:12:29 GMT
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In article <1991Mar6.151249.1421@urz.unibas.ch> schwengeler@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>I'd like to load an X11 bitmap file into the root window on my
>VAXstation 3500 runnung under VMS V5.4-1 and DECwindows.

Use Motif instead of the DECwindows window manager; this eliminates
the ``extra'' root window.

Marc

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