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Article #1406Re: Look and Feel? Or just Look?
From: David Brooks
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1990 19:53
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1990 19:53
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In article <22607@mimsy.umd.edu> don@brillig.umd.edu (Don Hopkins) writes: > >One problem with Motif is that the entire window edge stretches the >window, and someone who uses Motif regularly tells me that they often >accidentally stretch their window edges when they only meant to move >the window. It's annoying when you try to move an 80 column xterm, and >end up with a 74 column xterm in the same place. It's hard to get it >back to exactly 80 columns. > On a point of, possibily excruciating, detail about mwm: 1. If you realize you've done this without letting go of the mouse button, you can just hit the escape key to cancel a resize (or move) operation. 2. It's actually quite easy to get back to 80 columns, if you have the resize feedback turned on. It gives you the current target size, in character increments if the application has hinted right. 3. You can turn off the resize handles: in .Xdefaults globally or by client, or from the client programmatically. You can still initiate the occasional resize by a single keystroke. -- David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org Open Software Foundation uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!think!paperboy!osf!dbrooks From: dbrooks@osf.osf.org (David Brooks) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Look and Feel? Or just Look? Message-ID: <3863@paperboy.OSF.ORG> Date: 18 Feb 90 19:53:21 GMT References: <671@tci.bell-atl.com> <1907@cbnewsi.ATT.COM> <1990Feb14.201536.29437@sq.sq.com> <5348@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <22607@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Reply-To: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) Distribution: comp.windows.misc Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 26