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Article #37729Re: General WM/window info (was: Xview question: changing frame font)
From: Heather Rose
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 02:50
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 1990 02:50
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In article <132159@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@sun.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:
>In article <478@med.Stanford.EDU> rick@hanauma (Richard Ottolini) writes:
>> "olwm" doesn't accept font arguments and xv_set (base_frame,XV_FONT...)
>> doesn't work. Suggestions? (I see that there are various sized olglyph
>> fonts.)
>
>Remember: a "frame" (or base window) in an application is not
>associated with the window manager's decorations for toplevel
>windows (children of the root window). That means that the
>application does not have direct control over the fonts or
>colors of the titlebar, resize handles, gadgets or whatever
>that are installed on titlebar of the window. These functions
>are strictly window manager responsibilities and applications
>should not be able to set such attributes.
>
>Sepcifically to XView, setting XV_FONT in anything in the
>application will not affect your titlebar font. Use your
>X resources or window manager functions to set such attributes.
Just browsing the olwm man page...
olwm.TitleFont
Font used in title bars above the windows. Default is
Lucida-Sans Bold.
olwm.IconFont
Font used in icons. Default is Lucida-Sans.
olwm.MenuTitleFont
Font used in the title (first line) of menus. Default
is lucidasans-bold-12.
olwm.MenuButtonFont
Font used for individual entries in menus. Default is
lucidasans-12.
olwm.GlyphFont
Glyph font used for drawing OPEN LOOK graphics. You
probably don't want to change this.
Regards,
Heather
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