Re: [vile] What's the X GUI most like Motif if you don't have Motif?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:14:02AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> I have finally got my desktop Linux box to replace my Windows XP
> system at work.  So I'm now building all the extra necessities like
> vile and xvile (far fewer than for Solaris!).
> 
> The Fedora 6 box I have been given doesn't have Motif libraries (which
> is what I usually use for xvile), what's the closest alternative out
> of the others? (Not to mention which is likely to be on Fedora)
> 
> The only thing that really bugs me from the non-Motif GUI is the
> scroll bar, I want a scroll bar with a pointer at each end.  Can I get
> this with anything other than Motif?

I usually use the Xaw flavor (which iirc doesn't have an arrow on the ends)
because it's easiest to drag the boundary between windows up/down.

Regarding Motif - I'd assume it has LessTif available (though the comment
about "I have been given" sounds as if you don't necessarily have
control over that(.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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