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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Question on shell widgets and geometry
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Date: 14 Mar 89 21:31:59 GMT
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> (so that the top-level widget has no children) the geometry option is not
> heeded.

It appears the the current MIT implementation of the Shell widget does
not parse the geometry string unless it has a child.  From reading the
Shell widget specification this appears to be a bug.  I am going to
forward this to xbugs.


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