myers@hpldola.HP.COM (Dan Myers) (08/04/89)
I have run hpwm (HP's window mgr, based on Motif) on mono and color monitors. While the color version is very nice, I did not think the mono version was particularly unusable, simply grainier and not as impressive. Dan
david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) (08/07/89)
In response to recent discussion about Motif's window manager: while it can be made to look OK in b&w, it is true that its default values make it look like death warmed over. Some experimenting helps. Below are portions of a resources file recently forwarded to me by Ben Schreiber at OSF's research institute. PS: is there a large enough base of people interested in Motif and in specific info such as this to warrant having the discussion in comp.windows.x, or should we assume that everybody who has Motif is on OSF's private mailing lists and can request such information there? Mwm*foreground: black ! Actually, when a window is Mwm*background: white ! deactivated, the background Mwm*backgroundPixmap: 50_foreground ! becomes white, insted of Mwm*topShadowPixmap: white ! 50% foreground (grey) Mwm*activeForeground: black Mwm*activeBackground: white Mwm*activeBackgroundPixmap: 50_foreground Mwm*activeTopShadowPixmap: white Mwm*menu*backgroundPixmap: background Mwm*menu*topShadowPixmap: 50_foreground Mwm*title*foreground: black Mwm*title*background: white Mwm*title*backgroundPixmap: white Mwm*title*topShadowPixmap: 50_foreground Mwm*title*activeForeground: white Mwm*title*activeBackground: black Mwm*title*activeBackgroundPixmap: black Mwm*title*activeBottomShadowPixmap: 50_foreground Mwm*feedback*backgroundPixmap: white -- David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu "An organization designing a system will produce a copy of its own communication structure." - Melvin Conway
djg@pyrnova (Don Giberson) (08/09/89)
In article <2249@ics.COM> david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis) writes: >PS: is there a large enough base of people interested in Motif and in >specific info such as this to warrant having the discussion in comp.windows.x, >or should we assume that everybody who has Motif is on OSF's private mailing >lists and can request such information there? please assume no such thing! we are a non-OSF member which will be providing Motif on our platform, and this group should be a big help! i for one am very interested in learning what others have to say about Motif: its use, misuse, abuse, hints, horror stories, etc.! advTHANKSance. Don Giberson / Pyramid Technology Corp / djg@pyramid.com / 415-965-7200 x2031 <or> ...!{allegra,decwrl,hplabs,munnari,sun,uunet,utai}!pyramid!djg Standard disclaimer, etc. etc.
robertw@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Robert B. Williams) (08/15/89)
I have the xdefaults we are using for mwm on b/w terminals in CIS. It gives you the 3-d look at some sacrifice to title readability because of the pixmap behind the title text. If that is a problem you can set mwm_bw*cleanText: true Have fun. robertw !### The following will give you a 3d scheme on a monochrome display.### !### To use, invoke mwm with the name mwm_bw. !### Example: mwm -name mwm_bw & mwm_bw*activeForeground: white mwm_bw*activeBackground: black mwm_bw*activeBackgroundPixmap: 25_foreground mwm_bw*activeTopShadowPixmap: 50_foreground mwm_bw*activeTopShadowColor: white mwm_bw*activeBottomShadowPixmap: foreground mwm_bw*activeBottomShadowColor: black mwm_bw*foreground: black mwm_bw*background: white mwm_bw*backgroundPixmap: 50_foreground mwm_bw*topShadowPixmap: foreground mwm_bw*topShadowColor: white mwm_bw*bottomShadowPixmap: foreground mwm_bw*bottomShadowColor: black mwm_bw*menu*foreground: white mwm_bw*menu*background: black mwm_bw*menu*backgroundPixmap: background mwm_bw*menu*topShadowPixmap: foreground mwm_bw*menu*topShadowColor: white mwm_bw*menu*bottomShadowPixmap: 50_foreground mwm_bw*menu*bottomShadowColor: white