Conference bulova::decwindows

Steve, 

You can display dtstyle on the second head to set backgrounds etc. 
The resources it sets should even be saved/restored properly across 
sessions (at least I don't remember having to hand edit anything)

Lots of other things don't work. The most annoying - workspace
switching only works on head 0. 


			Pete 

   CDE fell over a few too many times, was a little too `busy', and had
   a few too many restrictions.  (Particularly restrictions around the
   lack of multi-headed support.)  I've updated the background menu and
   have dropped back to MWM -- the DT window manager didn't provide me
   with anything I didn't already have with a slightly `tweaked' MWM.

   There's a screen background that blew CDE off several local systems. 
   (This has probably been reported before.)  Selecting the Inlay-Color
   background wedged CDE on *some* of the local systems -- seemingly
   only members of the AlphaStation 255 series, but I'm not sure if
   that's a solid pattern.

   With multi-head, the workspace feature isn't as valuable as it might
   otherwise be -- I may still wire it up under MWM, however.

    The bug involving InlayColor was fixed a real long time ago - you need
    to install the newest Open3D kit to get the updated device-dependent
    Xserver code.  The code that ships with the operating system is very,
    very old.  This bug only happens on TGA2 graphics cards, and didn't
    really have anything to do with cde other than being easy to reproduce
    in this way.
    
    /Charlotte
    
    PS - I agree with all the other reasons why you don't run cde - I don't
    run it either!

   Why hasn't this TGA2 fix been rolled into a DECwindows Motif fix kit,
   and into the FIS kit?  (We're still shipping systems to customers with
   factory-integrated TGA2 cards with this bug present -- I didn't check
   to see if the FIS was shipping baseline DECwindows Motif V1.2-4, or
   the patched version.)

   This does not make us look good.

   Here's the local DTWMRC.DAT -- this shows how to customize the MB1
   popup on the screen background.  This is a very useful approach when
   adding commands and local features to CDE.  (For details, see the man
   page SYS$SYSROOT:[CDE$DEFAULTS.SYSTEM.MAN]DTWMRC.4.)

   AppMenu, shown below, can be used to invoke user-specifed commands
   when MB1 is pressed on the root window...  In the example, just the
   DECterm option is shown.  But it should give you some ideas...

   The file DTWMRC.DAT normally resides in SYS$LOGIN:[.DT].

   --

!
! Copyright � 1990, 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation.  All rights reserved.
!                      
!----------------------------------------------------------------------------
!
! Motif window manager configuation file
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
   nice typo...

!
! This contains all window manager menu definitions and
! keyboard bindings.
!
! Here is a list of possible window manager functions:
!
! f.beep, 
! f.circle_down [icon|transient|window], f.circle_up[icon|transient|window], 
! f.exec "Command",
! f.dec_customize DialogBox, f.dec_help Topic,
! f.focus_color, f.focus_key, f.kill,
! f.lower [freeFamily|within|-ClientName], 
! f.maximize, f.menu MenuName, f.minimize, f.move, 
! f.next_cmap, f.next_key [icon|transient|window], f.pass_key, 
! f.prev_cmap, f.prev_key [icon|transient|window],
! f.nop, f.normalize, f.normalize_and_raise,
! f.pack_icons, f.post_smenu, f.quit_mwm, 
! f.raise [freeFamily|within|-ClientName],
! f.raise_lower, f.refresh_win
! f.refresh, f.resize,
! f.restart, f.restore, f.restore_and_raise, 
! f.screen next|prev|back|#,
! f.send_msg id, f.separator, f.set_behavior, f.title Title,
!
!-------------------------------------------------------------------
!
!               Menu descriptions
!
!    Workspace menu from MB1 on screen
!
Menu DefaultRootMenu 
{
	"Workspace"  	                          f.title
	no-label	       	                  f.separator               
	"Applications" 	  _A	                  f.menu AppMenu
	no-label	       	                  f.separator               
	"Shuffle Up"   	  _U	                  f.circle_up
	"Shuffle Down"	  _D 	                  f.circle_down
        "Next Window"     _N                      f.next_key
        "Previous Window" _v                      f.prev_key
	no-label	       	                  f.separator               
        "Pack Icons"      _P                      f.pack_icons 
        "Options"         _O                      f.menu MwmCustomizeMenu
	no-label	   	                  f.separator
	"Restart..."	  _R	                  f.restart
        "Help"            _H                      f.menu MwmHelpMenu    
}
Menu AppMenu 
{
	"Applications"  	                  f.title
	"DECterm" 	  _D	                  f.exec "create/terminal/detach"
	...
}

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