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BrianDrozd
10-28-2002, 09:27 AM
Since I received no helpful information in the programming forum, I'll ask here.

I have a program originally writen under Solaris I'm trying to get to work on Redhat Linux. The problem is that the window managers under Linux are not responding to updates in the colormap nor to commands to turn off window decorations. These commands are still being issued: I can login remotely from a Solaris box and see the colormap being updated and windows appear without decorations.

So the question is how do I set the Linux window managers to behave more like the window managers on Solaris? Specifically, how do I have to set up the window manager to be sure it is using a writable colormap (like DirectColor)? How do I set it up so the window decorations don't appear when I don't want them?

GaryJones32
10-30-2002, 02:59 AM
Hi,

All the varous window managers are different
and you configure them differently

but i'm not sure the commands you are talking about
wm_

work on Xfree ???

If they do I have never seen them used

bskahan
10-30-2002, 03:28 AM
i don't know the answer to your question but I can think of two programs that do what you want (start without WM borders) in all window managers.

Eterm and gkrellm

its definitely possible, maybe you can take a look at the source for these and see how they do it.