rme@wdl1.wdl.fac.com (Richard M Emberson Jr) (08/17/90)
First, I got vtwm yesterday and got it up and running with only minor problems.
(In twm.h the type Pixel is defined, but some files include Xmu.h which in turn
includes Intrinsic.h which also defines a type called Pixel. While both define
Pixel to the same thing,
typedef unsigned long Pixel;
both cc and gcc die. Thus I commented out the definition of Pixel in the file
twm.h and had to include the file Xmu.h in a number of other *.c files and
everything worked fine.
The system was a Sparc running sun os4 and X11R4.
I ended up compiling with gcc.)
I think vtwm is great!!!! Kudos, kudos.
Now, for my question.
After vtwm comes up I can re-position my startup windows and applications across
the virtual window. What I would like to do is not have to re-postion them each
time I login, i.e., have them automatically correctly positioned upon X11R4
startup. Is this possible??
Richard M. Emberson
rme@spl26.fac.ford.comecsv24@castle.ed.ac.uk (J Bradfield) (10/19/90)
This is really a question about X, which is probably simple, but I don't know enough about X to refine the question. I have vtwm, Beta release of 26 Jun 1990, and I was trying to fix a bug; owing to my almost complete ignorance of X I floundered for a while before seeing the bug, and one thing I tried at one stage was, in desktop.c, to call XSelectInput on VirtualDesktopDisplayOuter instead of on VirtualDesktopDisplay . One effect of this was that when vtwm started, the virtual desktop display did not appear, although it was shown as open in the icon manager. It did appear when I iconified and de-iconified it. Can somebody explain to me why this happened? Thanks for any help, Julian Bradfield.