Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard): > This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd > like to standardise > my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same.
In X, any window can look any way it likes. That said, though, most X apps are written using one of only a few toolkits (widget sets), and all apps written with the same toolkit will look similar and configure similarly. Perhaps try thinking of Athena as "membrane keys" and Motif as "push-buttons". Nobody seems to mind if the microwave oven has different type of buttons than the blender... You'll be able to configure some things to be the same (scrollbar dragging), but others will be difficult (3D look). > I assume this is possible but I don't > know where to start. Here's what I'd like. ... > xman however has the scroll bar at the left hand side and buttons that are > defined by dots. Not sure what you mean by "dots" here, though the Athena widget set does look rather plain. There should be single-width lines delineating buttons (you can probably make them thicker). The positive side is that it doesn't waste screen space with fancy borders and things. > The scroll-bar can only be moved by repeated left and right mouse > button clicking. which is pretty poor really. By default, it can be dragged by the middle button. Which is useless on a two-button mouse, even with chord-middle emulation. If you don't want to buy a different mouse, you can reconfigure it somewhere in the resources. I haven't messed with those in years, though. Sorry I can't help more - if you want a uniform look'n'feel X, you'll have to pick a particular toolkit and only use applications written in that. Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
