Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!acorn!ixi!ixi!pd From: pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Turning off keyboard traversal Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 13:45:27 GMT References: <5841@archive.BBN.COM> Sender: paul@x.co.uk (Paul Davey) Organization: IXI Ltd. Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: ajc@bbn.com's message of 15 Apr 91 17:28:18 GMT >>>>> On 15 Apr 91 17:28:18 GMT, ajc@bbn.com (Anthony J. Courtemanche) said: Anthony> The users of my application don't want keyboard traversal Anthony> and are confused and distracted by the automatic highligting Anthony> of currently selected items. Can all this stuff be turned Anthony> off easily? It depends what has been set in the code already but try the following in your [.X]defaults file. *highlightThickness:0 and/or *traversalOn:FALSE and/or *keyboardFocusPolicy:POINTER keyboardFocusPolicy:POINTER (a shell widget resource) has the side effect that the pointer must be in a widget for that widget to have focus. -- Regards, pd@x.co.uk IXI Limited Paul Davey pd@ixi.uucp 62-74 Burleigh St. ...!uunet!ixi!pd Cambridge U.K. "These are interesting times" +44 223 462 131 CB1 1OJ USA: 1 800 XDESK 57