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From: hallinan@gramian.harvard.edu (Peter Hallinan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems with TWM
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Date: 10 Feb 90 22:38:32 GMT
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I am trying to get an image processing program to work under X11R4
while using twm as the window manager. I have encountered 2 problems:

1) I would like to specify the position of the image windows on the screen.
To do this I need to set the twm variable UsePPosition that is documented
in its man page.  In my .twmrc I have
         x
	 x
	 x
UsePPosition "on"
         x
	 x
	 x
Despite the fact that my syntax seems perfectly correct, I get the errors:

twm: bad character `U', line 75
twm: syntax error, line 75
twm: errors found in "/usr/gramian/hallinan/.twmrc", twm aborting

If I delete the line, twm works fine.

Does anybody have a patch to fix this bug?

2) twm uses the default colormap while the image windows share a different
colormap. Thus the images do not display correctly until I move the mouse into 
the image windows. Is there a way to alter the default colormap used by twm?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Peter W. Hallinan			Aiken 229
hallinan@gramian.harvard.edu		Harvard University
					Cambridge, MA  02138