madd@world.std.com (jim frost) (01/07/90)
One thing I've noticed is that twm does not allow resizing a window to a smaller size until after you've stretched the resize box to larger than the current size. I'm not sure I'd call this a feature, as it makes life very difficult if, say, the window you have is as large as the screen and you have twm set up to keep windows on the screen. It then becomes impossible to shrink the window. Does anyone know if the new twm correctly handles window size suggestions? The old one would always use the maximum size field instead of the preferred size field and would happily resize windows to both larger and smaller than the size boundaries specified by the program. jim frost saber software jimf@saber.com
pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) (01/08/90)
I've encountered a problem with twm as well. In my applications menu, I have some fairly long command lines which I want sent to /bin/sh. using old twm I could break the lines up by escaping the newline with a "\" character. Now twm hangs because /bin/sh raises an error when it gets two lines instead of one. So the workaround is to have ugly .twmrc files with lines wrapping around. I'm running X11R4 on Sun Sparc 1. -Paul Nakada pnakada@oracle.com
toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) (01/08/90)
> One thing I've noticed is that twm does not allow resizing a window to > a smaller size until after you've stretched the resize box to larger > than the current size. Try "AutoRelativeResize" -- Tom LaStrange Solbourne Computer Inc. ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM 1900 Pike Rd. UUCP: ...!{boulder,sun}!stan!toml Longmont, CO 80501
toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange) (01/08/90)
> I've encountered a problem with twm as well. In my applications menu, > I have some fairly long command lines which I want sent to /bin/sh. > using old twm I could break the lines up by escaping the newline with > a "\" character. Now twm hangs because /bin/sh raises an error when > it gets two lines instead of one. So the workaround is to have ugly > .twmrc files with lines wrapping around. You probably want to put two backslashes, twm now goes looking through your string and does some character escaping for you. You now need to escape your backslash. Boy I feel sorry for that guy named Tab :-) -- Tom LaStrange Solbourne Computer Inc. ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM 1900 Pike Rd. UUCP: ...!{boulder,sun}!stan!toml Longmont, CO 80501
jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (01/09/90)
One thing I've noticed is that twm does not allow resizing a window to
a smaller size until after you've stretched the resize box to larger
than the current size.
Yup. That's why the AutoRelativeResize keyword is there. It makes resizing
work more like the uwm-style.