>>>>> "Paul" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> Hmm... ah, I see the problem. The LyX man page is malformed,
Paul> such that catman -w (at least on Solaris) doesn't generate the
Paul> right windex entry. On Solaris if the man page you ask for
Paul> doesn't exist in windex, man assumes it doesn't exist at all
Paul> (unless you provide the -F option). Darn annoying, but there
Paul> you go. Here's a patch for the LyX man page:
Applied. Thanks.
Paul> Oh, wait. I see the problem. Somehow these only work if you
Paul> invoke the command with the exact name "lyx" (so that's [at
Paul> least the filename part of] arg[0]). I installed it as
Paul> "lyx-1.0.0" and was running it with that name, and when you do
Paul> that none of the command line options work. I'd say that's a
Paul> bug, too.
Hmm, what should we use to get the options? Is arg[0] always right?
What if arg[0] is a symlink to some other name?
Paul> 1) _Why_ is LyX using this oh-so-strange set of options? There
Paul> sure ain't much standard about X user interfaces, but if
Paul> _anything_ can be considered standard, geometry can.
You found it: xforms does not use Xt. I guess this means that handling
resources a la Xt would be too difficult.
Paul> Also, if LyX doesn't support standard geometry and the -xrm
Paul> option, it can't be handled by most session managers. This is a
Paul> Bad Thing.
Paul> 2) You can't use the common idiom of negative numbers to xpos
Paul> and ypos, to position as an offset from the right/bottom of the
Paul> window instead of the left/top.
Paul> 3) This should probably be documented in the manual, somewhere,
Paul> as well.
Yes. Unfortunately, I am do not know much about this stuff.
JMarc, waiting for fvwm 2.2.0 to magically appear on my nearest mirror
ftp site ;)
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