Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!gatech!taco!lll-winken!miguel.llnl.gov!macq From: macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: OpenWindow submenu Message-ID: <93459@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 19 Mar 91 00:08:01 GMT References: Sender: usenet@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: miguel.llnl.gov |> > |> > >From my understanding, the OLWM shuts down for a short time to re-read |> > the necessary info. With no window manager to support the icons, they |> > show up like they should. The reason the icons move around is that they |> > don't have a specific place except that which you sent as a default ie.. |> |> FYI...From the olwm man page... |> |> RESTART |> Restart the window manager by issuing an exec(2) on |> argv. This shouldn't affect any running applications, |> nor should it cause the server to shut down. This |> option is useful for re-initializing the window |> manager, for instance, to cause it to re-read its menu |> specification file. |> By the way, the sample openwin-menu file that comes with Sun's OW 2.0 release includes this under the Utilities submenu of the Workspace menu. Which is to say that after reading a posting early in this thread I found it there and hadn't put it there myself. -- -------------------- Don MacQueen macq@miguel.llnl.gov --------------------