[6908] in Athena Bugs
logout and zepher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 17 10:14:32 1991
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 91 10:14:13 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: ezraerb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[6875]
On January 11, you sent the bug report below to "testers".
I'm afraid I don't quite understand your bug report. In the standard
login configuration, both the logout button and zephyr messages *do*
"appear in their own windows," and they *can* be "iconified and move
to a more convenient location."
Perhaps the confusion here is that you think that windows without
titlebars do not have their own windows. In fact, the reason zephyr
messages and the logout button do not have title bars is because they
are configured not to have title bars.
However, it *is* possible to iconify, move, and perform other window
operations on windows without title bars, using various mouse button
and key combinations.
For information about how to do this, read the man page for whatever
window manager you use (if you don't know which window manager you
use, you probably use "mwm" -- type "man mwm" to read its man page),
or ask about it in olc. Also, you can read the man page or ask in olc
if you wish to reconfigure your window manager so that zephyr messages
and/or the logout button have title bars.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
Reference:
From: ezraerb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 10:47:32 EST
It would be very helpful if the logout button and zepher messages
appeared in their own windows. This way they could be iconofied amd
moved to a more convient location (especially zepher messages). It
is very inconvient to be happily working away and suddenly you are
inturrepted by a zepher message. You can't do any work until you
read it and get rid of it. If I could iconofy the things I could
save them and read them when my urgent business is done. I tested
terminal test-2000.mit.edu
PS I do remember a terminal where the logout button had its own
window. What happened to it?
