razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Anshuman Razdan) (01/08/91)
Hi folks, After playing with mwm I got back to the wonderful world of twm and I discovered still wonderful tvtwm. I have two questions regarding the behaviour of tvtwm (twm). I am not sure if they are bugs or features(?). 1. When I use the virtual desktop option, the background pixmap of my screen becomes the stippled grey pattern (the defualt when you bring up the server). It replaces the root pattern that I set with xsetroot. When I restart the windowmanager, the old pattern gets displayed momentarily before getting replaced by twm supplied gray pattern. Is there a fix or work around to it? 2. This is to do with the function, f.hideiconmgr and f.showiconmgr. When I first use the f.hideiconmgr (using a Func key or thru menu) it unmaps the iconmgr alright. Next if asked to showiconmgr, all the buttons (representing clients) show but there is no border or title window i.e. twm does not provide it with title and border and all the schabang it is supposed to. The icon mgr also stays in foreground permanently including when the panner is moved to different section of the screen (so it should have hidden). Further attempts to hideiconmgr also fail. Any further attemts to showiconmgr result in deiconfying (looks arbitrary) of various clients in the iconmgr. The behaviour then becomes erratic. Any Clue or workarounds are welcome. Pl. email or post. If I get a fix, I will surely post it on the net. Thanks -- Anshuman Razdan ************************************************************ * razdan@toy Test and Methodology Group * * * * razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com Diablo Plant, Tempe Az * ************************************************************
razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Anshuman Razdan) (01/08/91)
In article <RAZDAN.91Jan7125223@behemoth.phx.mcd.mot.com> razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Anshuman Razdan) writes:
Hi folks,
After playing with mwm I got back to the wonderful world
of twm and I discovered still wonderful tvtwm. I have two
questions regarding the behaviour of tvtwm (twm). I am not sure
if they are bugs or features(?).
1. When I use the virtual desktop option, the background
pixmap of my screen becomes the stippled grey pattern (the
defualt when you bring up the server). It replaces the root pattern
that I set with xsetroot. When I restart the windowmanager, the
old pattern gets displayed momentarily before getting replaced by
twm supplied gray pattern. Is there a fix or work around to it?
2. This is to do with the function, f.hideiconmgr and
f.showiconmgr. When I first use the f.hideiconmgr (using a Func
key or thru menu) it unmaps the iconmgr alright. Next if asked to
showiconmgr, all the buttons (representing clients) show but
there is no border or title window i.e. twm does not provide it
with title and border and all the schabang it is supposed to. The
icon mgr also stays in foreground permanently including when the
panner is moved to different section of the screen (so it should
have hidden). Further attempts to hideiconmgr also fail. Any
further attemts to showiconmgr result in deiconfying (looks
arbitrary) of various clients in the iconmgr. The behaviour then
becomes erratic.
Any Clue or workarounds are welcome. Pl. email or post.
If I get a fix, I will surely post it on the net.
************************************************************
I found a fix for Problem 1. It is to be done using
VirtualDesktopBackgroundPixmap resource. The hunt for soln to #2
is still on.
Thanks again
--
Anshuman Razdan
************************************************************
* razdan@toy Test and Methodology Group *
* *
* razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com Diablo Plant, Tempe Az *
************************************************************stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke) (01/09/91)
In article <71795@bu.edu.bu.edu>, jc@bu-pub.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes: |> |> In article <RAZDAN.91Jan7141859@behemoth.phx.mcd.mot.com>, razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Anshuman Razdan) writes: |> |> In article <RAZDAN.91Jan7125223@behemoth.phx.mcd.mot.com> razdan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Anshuman Razdan) writes: |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> Hi folks, |> |> After playing with mwm I got back to the wonderful world |> |> of twm and I discovered still wonderful tvtwm. I have two |> |> questions regarding the behaviour of tvtwm (twm). I am not sure |> |> if they are bugs or features(?). |> |> |> |> 1. When I use the virtual desktop option, the background |> |> pixmap of my screen becomes the stippled grey pattern (the |> |> defualt when you bring up the server). It replaces the root pattern |> |> that I set with xsetroot. When I restart the windowmanager, the |> |> old pattern gets displayed momentarily before getting replaced by |> |> twm supplied gray pattern. Is there a fix or work around to it? |> |> |> > |> > I found a fix for Problem 1. It is to be done using |> > VirtualDesktopBackgroundPixmap resource. The hunt for soln to #2 |> > is still on. |> > |> |> Has anyone found an 'on-the-fly' solution? Depends on what you call `on-the-fly'. VirtualDesktopBackgroundPixmap is no real solution because it gives you only a fraction of the functionality of xsetroot. What you want is a version of xsetroot that honors virtual root windows. Replace mit/clients/xsetroot.c with the ssetroot.c file that comes with tvtwm and recompile. Many other clients can be coerced into using the virtual root by using the "vroot.h" header file in expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib. Hopefully R5 will include a standard way of dealing with virtual roots... -- Andreas Stolcke stolcke@icsi.berkeley.edu International Computer Science Institute stolcke@ucbicsi.bitnet 1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704 (415) 642-4274 ext. 126
stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne) (01/11/91)
[...] > > > > I found a fix for Problem 1. It is to be done using > > VirtualDesktopBackgroundPixmap resource. The hunt for soln to #2 > > is still on. > > In article <71795@bu.edu.bu.edu>, jc@bu-pub.bu.edu (James Cameron) writes: > > Has anyone found an 'on-the-fly' solution? > > jc Yes, use the current version of xloadimage (Xloadimage version 2 patchlevel 02 by Jim Frost). It supports to following formats: FBM Image Sun Rasterfile CMU WM Raster Portable Bit Map (PBM, PGM, PPM) Faces Project GIF Image Utah RLE Image X Window Dump McIDAS areafile G3 FAX Image MacPaint Image X Pixmap X Bitmap It is available via uunet.uu.net, expo.lcs.mit.edu, and I think any comp.windows.x archive site... -- stripes@eng.umd.edu "Security for Unix is like Josh_Osborne@Real_World,The Multitasking for MS-DOS" "The dyslexic porgramer" - Kevin Lockwood "Don't over-comment" - p151 The Elements of Programming Style 2nd Edition Kernighan and Plauger