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


From: Eur Ing Chris Green
Subject: Re: [vile] What's the X GUI most like Motif if you don't have Motif?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:53:55 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.1i

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:32:21AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:14:02AM +0000, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> > I have finally got my desktop Linux box to replace my Windows XP
> > system at work.  So I'm now building all the extra necessities like
> > vile and xvile (far fewer than for Solaris!).
> > 
> > The Fedora 6 box I have been given doesn't have Motif libraries (which
> > is what I usually use for xvile), what's the closest alternative out
> > of the others? (Not to mention which is likely to be on Fedora)
> > 
> > The only thing that really bugs me from the non-Motif GUI is the
> > scroll bar, I want a scroll bar with a pointer at each end.  Can I get
> > this with anything other than Motif?
> 
> I usually use the Xaw flavor (which iirc doesn't have an arrow on the ends)
> because it's easiest to drag the boundary between windows up/down.
> 
> Regarding Motif - I'd assume it has LessTif available (though the comment
> about "I have been given" sounds as if you don't necessarily have
> control over that(.
> 
I have a reasonable amount of 'control' in that I have root access to
the box, I just don't want to install too many extras so as not to
'push the envelope' too far!  :-)

If there is LessTif here how would I know and how would I build xvile
with it?

-- 
Chris Green




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