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From: mikey@decwrl.dec.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Question re: (VMS) DECwindows Session Manager
Message-ID: <103@gilroy.dec.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 16:43:49 GMT
References: <4290@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <4290@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis) writes:
>	Our site's System Programmer and myself are in the process of porting
>the twm window manager to VMS DECwindows.  We have it working, for the most
>part.  One thing I haven't been able to figure out is that when I call on the
>Session Manager to Quit (LOGOFF), even if I haven't made any customization
>changes via the Session Manager, it asks me if I want to save the changes I've
>made to the customizations before quitting.

This problem also occurs with versions of the Ultrix session manager
prior to UWS 2.2.  The session manager tries to detect movement of its
main window by comparing the origin it gives the toolkit during
creation with the origin it fetches when one quits.  With window
managers which decorate client windows with a title bar, this method
often fails.  It does work with DEC's window manager, which is why
you didn't notice the problem before.

In UWS 2.2, the session manager uses this test only when using the
default (DEC) window manager.  The VMS session manager presumably
continues to use this test in all cases.

There is no workaround.  A future release of the session manager for
both platforms will get rid of this test completely, as DEC moves to
Motif and the Motif window manager (MWM) for which the test doesn't
work either.

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