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Re: [vile] What's the X GUI most like Motif if you don't have Motif?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [vile] What's the X GUI most like Motif if you don't have Motif? |
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Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:33:35 -0400 |
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:20:39PM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > > 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").
> >
> OK, there was no LessTif but I've downloaded and built and installed
> it so I now have an xvile built with Motif. I seem to remember doing
> that for another system somewhere too.
( Of course you could also build Open Motif ;-)
I don't recall noticing any serious problems with LessTif (most of the
noticeable layout bugs got fixed a while ago).
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