Resource configuration
Resource configuration
- Subject: Resource configuration
- From: Timothy Goins <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:04:42 -0600
This has got to be one of the dumbest questions/issues ever posted to
this list; however, I'm dumbfounded. I am running mwm (compiled from
OpenMotif source, not the lesstiff version from Fink) on a MacBook
Pro (10.4.7). Unfortunately, I have used CDE on SUNs for the past
decade or so; before that I used mwm on AIX (until IBM went to the
CDE). Consequently my motif configuration knowledge is rusty to say
the least. Amazingly enough, I got mwm running on Quartz relatively
easily (use the Alt+Cmd+A key combo to get from the Aqua desktop to
full screen X. I have a ~/.xinitrc (which calls my ~/.Xdefaults via
a simple if...xrdb -merge...fi scrip snippet). I also have an
~/.mwmrc that isn't sourced from my ~/.xinitrc file and doesn't seem
to do much of anything. I do not have an ~/.Xresources nor an
~/.Xmodemap. Oddly enough, I edited my ~/.xinitrc from the
boilerplate /private/etc/xinit/xinitrc file, which clearly indicates
that boilerplate Xresources, Xdefaults, Xmodemap, etc. are to be
found in the same director ready to be edited, dotted, and placed in
$HOME. Not so.
In any case, my troubles began when I hooked up my 17" LCD TV via DVI-
to-VGA+audio cables (please, please don't ask me why the hell I'd
want to do that). Well, I fired up X with CNN running on the TV but
the three xterms and xclock that are initiated just before exec mwm
in my ~./.xinitrc file were no where to be found. Didn't help when I
changed channels to FOX either ;-); clearly, my problem was not a
result of either conservative or semi-neutral newscasts! Duh, I
switched my TV to PC mode, voilá, there were my xterms and clock
prowdly displayed at 0+0 in 1280X768 resolution on the TV (laptop
resolution is 1680x1050). Turned off the TV, but unfortunately it
only goes to standby, so there's always a signal (and yes, unplugging
the cable or power to the TV did occur to me). By reeeeeeeaaaaaching
way over with my pointer, I dragged an xterm over to the laptop
screen and determined that if I set the xterms geometry to 70x40+2220
+20, 70x40+2210+30, and 70x40+2200+40, they appeared in the correct
spots, CNN or no CNN!
Well, all that to report shamelessly that I can't figure out how to
minimize an xterm without having the icon disappear -2230+-500 pixels
away beneath CNN! After you stop laughing, how the heck do I change
the location of minimized xterm (and other) icons? Man, I grepped
the dickens out of every config X11 file I can find! Nada.
Timo
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