[comp.windows.x] xbiff -shape ???

mh2620@sarek.sbc.com (Mark Horstman [314-235-3417]) (12/22/90)

I can't seem to get the shape option to work on xbiff.  The way
it looks I should be able to have a non-rectangular window that
looks like... a mailbox for example, as long as I provide a mask
for the bitmap.  How come I can't get it to work? 

I'm running twm/tvtwm/vtwm/olwm/mwm X11R4 fix-18 on a SS1 with 
SunOS 4.1.1.

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Mark Horstman
mh2620@sarek.sbc.com
Southestern Bell Telephone
St. Louis, MO

converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (12/22/90)

> I can't seem to get the shape option to work on xbiff.  The way
> it looks I should be able to have a non-rectangular window that
> looks like... a mailbox for example, as long as I provide a mask
> for the bitmap.  How come I can't get it to work? 

I can't read your resource settings from here.  Why don't you tell
us what they are when you ask your question!

> I'm running twm/tvtwm/vtwm/olwm/mwm X11R4 fix-18 on a SS1 with 
> SunOS 4.1.1.

This works for me:

xbiff*shapeWindow:      on
xbiff*fullPixmap:	mailfull
xbiff*emptyPixmap:	mailempty
xbiff*fullPixmapMask:	mailfullmsk
xbiff*emptyPixmapMask:	mailemptymsk

jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) (12/27/90)

Mark Horstman [314-235-3417] writes:
> I can't seem to get the shape option to work on xbiff.  The way
> it looks I should be able to have a non-rectangular window that
> looks like... a mailbox for example, as long as I provide a mask
> for the bitmap.  How come I can't get it to work? 
> 
> I'm running twm/tvtwm/vtwm/olwm/mwm X11R4 fix-18 on a SS1 with 
> SunOS 4.1.1.

Are you running the X11R4 server from MIT...or Sun's OpenWindows?  Sun
does not implement the shape extension in the 2.0 release.  

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)

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