Re: How to use left mouse for Xaw3d scoll bar?
Johan Walles <d92-jwa@nada.kth.se> writes:
> PS: I'm under the impression that Emacs has support for Motif, but not
> for GTK+. Is that so? In that case, anybody but me find this weird?
That's so. Bill Perry developed Gtk-XEmacs which has been folded in
to XEmacs proper but is still considered experimental. I've heard
that it's available (perhaps in unstable?) for Debian as
xemacs-gnome. There was some discussion on emacs-devel about GTK
support in GNU Emacs, but I don't think it's a priority.
The weirdness is historical. The GNU project decided to use X11 as
their window system, but didn't standardise on a toolkit. Lesstif
progressed slowly (it's pretty good now). GTK is weird because it
transcends X toolkitiness; I think the idea is that a well-behaved
GTK program can run on a Windows or Macintosh machine with appropriate
libraries (under XEmacs built --with-gtk the variable window-system's
value is gtk, not x).
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John Paul Wallington
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