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From: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Poping up shells
Message-ID: <3029@daisy.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 18:15:02 GMT
References: <857@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: klee@daisy.UUCP (Ken Lee)
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Organization: Daisy Systems Corp., Mountain View, Ca.
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In article <857@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> battle@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu (David L. Battle) writes:
>This is probably a silly question, but when I pop up a shell widget 
>with the following code, I have to place it with the the window manager
>before it shows up.  I want it to just pop up where ever the cursor is.

You should use an override shell instead of a simple shell if you want
to (anti-socially) avoid the window manager.  Use the XtNx and XtNy
resources to get it to appear at a particular position (relative to the
root window).
-- 
Ken Lee
Daisy Systems Corp., Interactive Graphics Tools Dept.
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