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From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi ASAMI)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Xaw3D widgets - Has anybody used this?
Date: 10 Aug 1995 22:25:05 GMT
Organization: CS Div. - EECS, The University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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In-reply-to: ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu's message of 10 Aug 1995 09:18:17 PST
In article <40df0p$eks@umigw.miami.edu>
ivan@nauplius.rsmas.miami.edu (Ivan Lima) writes:
* I installed the Xaw3D library package in my system. Does
* anyone know how to configure the window manager to use those
* libraries ? Or are this libraries to be used only to develop new
* applications ?
Depends on how the window manager is written. Most of them that I
know don't use the Athena Widget set, so you won't be able to let them
use Xaw3d, which is a replacement of Xaw (the Athena Widget library).
If you want a 3D looking window manager, try ctwm or fvwm.
And on how to use the library you just installed: Xaw3d has a shared
library which is a drop-in replacement of the Xaw shared library, so
if you just rename the files, all X applications that use Xaw will
automatically pick up the 3D stuff. (The power of shared libraries --
you don't need to recompile the applications.)
What you can do is (as root, assuming you already have Xaw3d installed):
cd /usr/X11R6/lib
mv libXaw.so.6.0 libXaw2d.so.6.0 (move the original Xaw out of the way)
ln -s libXaw3d.so.6.0 libXaw.so.6.0
Then restart X and admire the creation of Kaleb. :)
By the way, you probably want this:
*beNiceToColormap: False
in your ~/.Xdefaults (or whatever you call it) to make the 3-D stuff
look neat.
Satoshi