Not impressed with MacX

Barry Margolin barmar at think.com
Fri Nov 30 10:01:00 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov28.234514.9078 at julius.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge at cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>hrf900 at fac5.anu.oz.au (Hugh Fisher) writes:
>>Isn't it obvious that
>>-bw 2 means round cornered rectangle window?
>An alternative might have
>been to require a '.windowstyle' declaration in the resources
>database or a per-client setting in MacX; however, that doesn't
>address setting style from the command line. It also doesn't
>address having clients with multiple window styles (I'm running
>epoch with two different styles, for instance).

Standard Unix X clients accept an argument (I think it's "-rm") that allows
arbitrary resource settings to be specified for that client.  Wouldn't that
address setting style from the command line and having clients with
different styles?
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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