[comp.windows.x.motif] mwm - impossible task?

harkcom@spinach.pa.yokogawa.co.jp (Alton Harkcom) (05/14/91)

   Again after fooling with the resource files for mwm I am at the point
where I do not fear telling upper management to shove mwm...And over such
a minor detail at that...

   First a thought: I have used many window managers and mwm is the only
 	one that has puts me off so badly... I wonder if the author(s) of
	mwm use a different window manager and only run mwm for testing???
	Enough garbage, or nobody will answer my question...

   I want to make icons line up at the bottom left of my screen. Simple.
I want to no gaps when I iconify a window. Apparently impossible. I got
them to line up. I de-iconify them and iconify a window who's icon was
to the right. It appears just where it used to be and doesn't tippy toe
on down to the left like I want it to. (Somehow I get the feeling that
the same scum who design HPUX design mwm...)

   Is it possible to get mwm to have left gravity when iconifying?

Al

nazgul@alfalfa.com (Information Junkie) (05/15/91)

>    Again after fooling with the resource files for mwm I am at the point
> where I do not fear telling upper management to shove mwm...And over such
> a minor detail at that...
You're not kidding.

>    First a thought: I have used many window managers and mwm is the only
>  	one that has puts me off so badly... I wonder if the author(s) of
Why?  Because it has so many configuration options?  If you don't want
any options you can always try olwm.

> to the right. It appears just where it used to be and doesn't tippy toe
> on down to the left like I want it to. (Somehow I get the feeling that
Sounds like a feature to me.  Why don't you get the source and add the
option you'd like?

>    Is it possible to get mwm to have left gravity when iconifying?
Now why couldn't you have just said that without all of the insults?

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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.