3D Look in Athena

[Joachim Zach <zach@ceos-gmbh.de>]

There were several discussions about the destroyed 3D Look with Athena
especially in the Caldera Linux distributions. We found the following:

Caldera does redirect libXaw.so.n to some special libXaw.so.n.m.Xaw3d.
This brings 3D look into any program compiled with 2D widgets. Since V
does about the same for some widgets the result looks horrible.

However there is an easy workaround:

Create a link to the original libXaw.so.n.m, which comes with the
XFree-distribution also on Caldera:

	ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.n.m /mylibdir/libXaw.so.n
	ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.n.m /mylibdir/libXaw.so

Then compile your programs with -L/mylibdir and start it, for example
with

	env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mylibdir myprogram.

Of coarse on could also set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the profiles, let
ldconfig create a proper link to the original library in /usr/X11R6/lib
or uninstall the Xaw-3Dlook-Package of the Caldera-distributions etc.
However, we do not recommend this because then all old applications like
xterm, xedit etc., which were compiled with Athena-2D show the ugly
2D-scrollbars and buttons.

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