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

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:33:35AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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).
> 
Yes, it all seems OK, and I think it's what xvile is built against on
my home system and it seems fine there.  I get the following warning
on exit (same as at home) :-

    Warning: XtRemoveGrab asked to remove a widget not on the list

Could this be a LessTif quirk?


-- 
Chris Green