gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) (01/15/91)
I've just started using X-windows, and I've decided on using
OpenWindows on my sun 3/60.
I've been frustrated for several days trying to figure this
thing out. Please help.
1) How can I place icons where I want them on the screen? I put lines
like the following in my .xinitrc, and it doesn't seem to be making
a difference:
xterm -xrm "*iconGeometry: 32x32+1106+72" -geometry 80x24+610+352
2) How can I change the default icon? I would like some of my xterms
to have different icons than the default one with the tools on it.
3) How can I change the root menu? According to the man page for
Open Look, I create a .olwmmenu file and put my definitions in
there. Well, I took the default menu file, made changes to it,
and nothing. I'm still getting the default menu.
Thanks in advance!!!
-greg
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Gregory A. Gulik
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|| gulik@depaul.edujmck@norge.Eng.Sun.COM (John McKernan) (01/17/91)
grp@magpie.unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) writes: >The window manager (olwm) that comes with OpenWindows does not honor >icon placement requests. The only place icons may be put are on the >four sides of the display. Note that xview applications have a resource and a command line flag that allows you to specify where to put that application's icon. The command line flag is -WP, and the resources are Icon.X and Icon.Y. This is documented in the xview man page, and an example can usually be found in your .openwin-init file if you have done a "save workspace." Please note that I have never used the resources, only the command line flag. John McKernan. jmck@sun.com Windows and Graphics Software, XView Development Group, Sun Microsystems.
gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) (01/17/91)
First of all, I'd like to thank everyone for their replies to my posting. I receive many messages asking to forward answers, but there were so many, I thought it would be better to let everyone know what answers we received by following up to my own posting. In article <6171@melon11.UUCP> gulik@motcid.UUCP (Gregory Gulik) writes: > >1) How can I place icons where I want them on the screen? I put lines > like the following in my .xinitrc, and it doesn't seem to be making > a difference: > > xterm -xrm "*iconGeometry: 32x32+1106+72" -geometry 80x24+610+352 The above syntax works under Open Look. The problem I guess I was having was using things like "*iconGeometry: 32x32-0-0", which would place the icon off the screen. A syntax like 32x32-50-50 would make it appear near the upper right hand corner of the screen. >2) How can I change the default icon? I would like some of my xterms > to have different icons than the default one with the tools on it. Also, under Open Look, you can change the default by using -xrm "*iconPixmap: bitmapfile" I've tested this with xterm and works great. I haven't tried it with other utilities yet. >3) How can I change the root menu? According to the man page for > Open Look, I create a .olwmmenu file and put my definitions in > there. Well, I took the default menu file, made changes to it, > and nothing. I'm still getting the default menu. Apparently the man page we have online is old. The 2.0 version of Open Windows uses the file .openwin-menu as the root menu file for Open Look instead of .olwmmenu Once again, thanks for all your replies. -greg -- -- Gregory A. Gulik mcdchg!motcid!gulik || greg@gagme.chi.il.us || gulik@depaul.edu