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From: ekberg@asl.dl.nec.COM (Tom Ekberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: FrameMaker and tvtwm
Message-ID: <9104081632.AA27204@aslss01.asl.dl.nec.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 16:32:37 GMT
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I am using a SPARCstation running the X Window System (X11R4) and FrameMaker
2.1X.  I recently obtained the tvtwm window manager from MIT (patch level 4)
and brought it up for internal use.  The only difficulty I have is that
FrameMaker document windows do not come up with the right size.  When I open a
document, very often the width of the document window will be more than 30000
pixels (about 25 feet wide for a 100dpi monitor).  Sometimes the width will be
reasonable (not correct, but reasonable) and the height will be more than 30000
pixels.  The other times the width will be about 1/3 normal and the height
about 2/3 the normal size.  There seems to be an unusual interaction between
the tvtwm window manager, a (presumably) ICCCM compliant window manager, and
FrameMaker.

I really like the virtual screen idea of tvtwm, especially for FrameMaker.  It
is nice to have all of FrameMaker's windows (paragraph, character, ...) in one
place in the virtual screen so they don't get in the way when I am doing
something else.

If you have used tvtwm and FrameMaker successfully I'd like to find out how to
get them to cooperate.

  -- tom, ekberg@asl.dl.nec.com (x3503)