Bug#2813: Xaw3d scroll bards
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> > If you mean the arrow-type scroll bars (as opposed to the ordinary
> > gray ones), then I am a bit puzzled what you mean by "cannot get it
> > to work": there is no way I can think of one can even TRY to get
> > them to work, without recompiling Xaw3d.
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> Well, what I mean is a rectangular, raised (3Dish) bar instead of the
> shaded rectangle that is normal. _I_ have never seen them on my
> machine (this is the first time I've tried to work with Xaw3D), so I'm
> not sure if what I want is in fact possible.
It certainly is -- just recompile Xaw3d. You will get what the
xaw3d author calls arrowscrollbars: a 3d-looking bar where there's
usually the grey shade, and arrows at both extremes. (A bit like
rxvt).
But the arrows don't work for xterm (they do work for other programmes,
but I don't really know of many programmes that use scrollbars other
than xterm)
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> Essentially, the docs I've read for xterm_right_ansi_3D say that you
Could you tell me what docs that are? I'd be intersted.
As far as I know (and I've got the information from the README
from the author), there exists a patch for the X11R5 xterm to
make the arrowscrollbars work, not for X11R6 -- though this should
not be difficult (according to the readme). But, I'm not the
xterm maintainer, nor do I vieuw this as ultra important
> can get a raised 3D scrollbar (I don't know about the top and bottom
> arrows) instead of the ugly shaded ones if you set certain *Scrollbar
> attributes.
Yes, it will *LOOK* the same -- it just won't be as usable.
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> > I don't know where all of you got "the old a.out xaw3d" from
> > (not me, and I thought I was the first debian distributer for xaw3d),
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> I don't know -- I wasn't one of them. :)
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> Now, since I have never gotten the 3d-look to work, I'm not sure of
> this but shouldn't the *Scrollbar settings give it a sort of raised
> look?
Well, I'm not too sure either, but I assume it's *ONLY* if you
defined ARROWSCROLLBAR (or whatever) in the Imakefile.
I didn't do that, for the reasons I've said now about 3 times
(Maybe only twice to you presonally).
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> > What examples exactly? The only examples I know of are the ordinary
> > X-applications that use the Athena widget set.
> Well, I am not at my computer, so I don't have the READMEs from the
> various programs, but David Johnson said that he lost his 3d scroolbar
> when he moved to ELF Xaw -- his .Xresources, which look similar to
> mine are:
> [...]
What I find rather strange is that you (and David Johnson) already
mailed this to debian-user. I then replied to you (in debian-user,
I think) why I removed the arrowscrollbars, and now you are
filing a bug report about exactly the same thing?
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