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From: sane!genmri!doug@crdgw1.ge.com (Doug Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Misc OpenWindows 2.0 questions
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Date: 19 Mar 91 18:34:39 GMT
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    When I look in /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.a
    I see an XShape.o - doesnt that module mean that OW 2.0 supports Shape?

No.  Xlib and the server are two separate entities, and you're looking at
Xlib.  The OW 2.0 server does not support SHAPE.
    
    How can I tell what extentions a server supports?

From the command line, you can use xdpyinfo.  From Xlib, you can use
XListExtensions.
    
    Seems funny that NeWS, with its innate shape capabilities, is having
    problems at this point, if indeed it is.

NeWS is not having problems, you're having difficulty understanding that X
is not NeWS.  In OW 2.0, if you want a nonrectangular window, you'll have
to use NeWS, and by doing so the difference between X and NeWS will become
all too obvious to you.  :-)

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Doug Becker
doug@nmri.ge.com
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