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From: Stuart.Marks@eng.sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Motif app window decorations under OLWM
Message-ID: <9105031949.AA12967@trantor.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 3 May 91 19:49:53 GMT
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    Our application is written with Motif 1.1 and makes heavy use of Dialog
    Boxes (in Dialog Shells); each of these has a title (set by the
    XmNtitle resource on the Dialog Shell).  When we run under the Open
    Look Window Manager (on a Sun 4 with Open Windows 2) these dialog boxes
    appear with no window decoration.  This means the title is not shown
    along with no resize handles, etc.

I believe this occurs because Motif dialog boxes set the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR
hint.  Olwm (from OpenWindows 2.0) gives transient windows very little
decoration.  There's no way to change this in that version of olwm.

There may be a resource you can set to tell Motif not to set the
WM_TRANSIENT_FOR hint.  I know Frame has such a resource, but I don't know
about Motif in general.  Perhaps a Motif expert can respond.

s'marks

Stuart W. Marks			ARPA: smarks@eng.sun.com
Windows & Graphics Software	UUCP: sun!smarks
Sun Microsystems, Inc.