Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ken Evans <[email protected]> · Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:45:49 -0600 (CST)

 PS> When I use Solaris CDE, the medm (display) windows do not have
 PS> corner resizing brackets.  The only way to resize is to
 PS> right-mouse along the window's title-bar and choose the 'Size'
 PS> option, then drag the mouse around to get the new window
 PS> size. Other x-clients (e.g. alh, StripTool, terminal) have the
 PS> corner brackets.

     This behavior is hard coded into MEDM and was there before I
inherited it.  I don't know the reason.  Probably because resizing
didn't work at the time.  It looks to me like it should be changed.

 PS> Is there an 'X-switch' or CDE environment setting which I can set
 PS> to make the medm windows show the corner resize brackets?

    I don't think so.  You could change the code and rebuild.  These
are the lines in display.c.  (Looks like I had already flagged it ;-)

  /* Turn resize handles off
   * KE: Is is really good to do this? */
    XtSetArg(args[nargs],XmNmwmDecorations,MWM_DECOR_ALL|MWM_DECOR_RESIZEH);
    nargs++;

    -Ken

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System