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7.3 Motif window frame shading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Aug 14 04:18:50 1991
From: sst@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: sst@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 91 04:18:59 EDT
In previous releases, the mwm frame of the active window was white
(foreground) with grey (50_foreground) topshadow. Inactive windows had
frames of grey with white topshadow. This was good, as it made the
active window look "brighter" than the others. (I use reverse video.)
Now the situation is approximately reversed and looks hideous. The
active window is framed in grey with white topshadow, which is okay by
itself, but the inactive windows are framed in a slightly dotted white
(25_foreground ?), with grey topshadow. They glare something fierce.
The change that I found was in /usr/athena/lib/X11/app-defaults/Mwm.
These lines are now commented out:
Mwm*client*backgroundPixmap: 50_foreground
Mwm*client*topShadowPixmap: foreground
Mwm*activeTopShadowPixmap: 50_foreground
But adding them back in does *not* fix things. Instead it gives all
windows, both active and inactive, grey frames with white topshadow.
This change is in place on the test-rt and test-3100; I haven't tried
it on other platforms. I found no mention of it in the release
documentation. If it can't be undone, I'd like to know what to put in
my .Xresources in order to reverse it.
S. Tucker
