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For questions about Motif, one of the oldest graphical user interfaces of Unix/Linux systems.

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I am reading a book about dtksh. The first "hello world" example begins as follows: #!/usr/local/dt/bin/dtksh . $UTILDIR/xutil.sh XUinitialize TOPLEVEL Hello "$@" XUlabel LABEL $...
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I am trying to change the icon for Firefox using X resources and CDE. I am not sure if it is possible anymore. I have tried this: Dtwm*firefox*iconImage: Dtterm and this: Dtwm*mozilla*iconImage: ...
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I am using the Motif Window Manager as my desktop. Motif allows many settings to be adjusted in ~/.Xdefaults. I have a lot of settings, which are confirmed to work here, such as changing the color. ...
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According to some old documentation about mwm, many settings for this window manager must be placed in an .Xresources folder in the $HOME directory. When I normally boot up my computer (Debian 11), ...
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An old-school UNIX question: Motif allows to have a X11 motif MWM window always on top by code. However, I would like to know if I can make the same with an external command (in a similar way you can ...
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I'm using mwm in rhel. I'm often lost when I have multiple windows. Is there anyway to list all the opened windows? Google din't help!
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At my University there is a course called “Programming with Motif”. It being quite an old framework, I am wondering where Motif / programs made with Motif are used today.
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I have installed a program called Swiss PDB. Upon running the program I get the error: /usr/share/SPDBV/bin/spdbv.Linux: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object ...
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