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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:53:55AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:32:21AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > 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(.
> > 
> I have a reasonable amount of 'control' in that I have root access to
> the box, I just don't want to install too many extras so as not to
> 'push the envelope' too far!  :-)
> 
> If there is LessTif here how would I know and how would I build xvile
> with it?

There'd be an rpm installed.  If you have trouble finding one, I can
take a look - I don't recall what I have on my Fedora5 at home, since
I spend most of the time on Debian/testing.  googling suggests that
Fedora5 had Open Motif, which generally works better:

http://www.3ddart.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=6735

Anyway - with rpm, you can list all or some packages.  Offhand, something
like "rpm -q -a" would list all (like "dpkg -l").

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Thomas E. Dickey
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