Questions tagged [motif]

a graphical user interface toolkit used in software development

Motif is one of the first X toolkits, a sucessor of the Athena Widgets (Xaw).

Some resources include:

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I have a legacy C++ project that uses motif for GUI. I want to create a Visual Studio solution of this project. Is this possible?

I have a legacy C++ project that uses motif for GUI. I want to create a Visual Studio solution of this project. So that I can build/run/debug from Visual studio. Currently I am on a windows box. I ssh into a Unix box and use cc to build and dbx to…
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openMotif and C programming issue to transmit a string to Dialog Widget

I have a problem with my code. The goal is to show a word found in a dictionnary (loaded in list) and to return the translation. Everything works fine except that the string shown in a dialog just shows a strange encoding and not the word I want him…
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.xpm files not loading

I have ported a 32-bit Motif application (from SLES 10 SP1) to 64-bit SLES 12 SP3. Because of proprietary libraries (XRT) I have been forced to compile on a 32-bit platform (SLES 11 SP3) and link Motif statically (XRT was already statically linked).…
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What code is required to enable client-side decoration in Gnome 3 with X without using GTK?

Returning user here. I have a requirement to migrate a system of OpenMotif 2.3 apps currently running under RHEL5, Gnome Desktop 2.x, to Gnome 3 under RHEL7. The problem is that the apps require modifying the window menu, adding items on a…
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MOTIF GUI programming

MOTIF GUI PROGRAMMING ! Hi there. I am a MOTIF GUI Programmer in C language. After a longer break i have problems with the GCC compiling. my MOTIF file is named winstack.c The compilation runs good. But no executable LINUX FILE is created. except a…
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How to create a X window to perform another program or Set one window alway on top

I get 2 independent programs (A & B) on Linux Redhat, developed by Motif toolkit based on X window. These 2 programs all have there own human-machine-interface. and there come the questions: When displaying these 2 programs on the same desktop, how…
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libXm get display number from widget

I'm using libXm4.0.3. I want to get the display number that the widget is being displayed on from the widget. Going directly to xlib causes a segfault. Xt seems to also segfault. I started using some of the XmGetXmDisplay or XmGetXmScreen…
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How to center the main Application Window in MOTIF in the middle of the computer screen?

How to center the main application window of a MOTIF Widget in the center of the computer screen ? for example a form Widget here. The code is ready and working but the window appears on the left upper side on the screen. #include…
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Is there a way to return all Widgets from a parent Window with X11/Xt?

I'm writing an application using X11, Xt, and Motif directly with C. I want to have the ability to list all the children widgets from a parent Window. Is there a way to do this? I found the following snippet to recursively parse a Motif widget tree…
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Makefile:1059: *** missing separator. Stop

I have a project writed for DEC Unix v4. I want to compile it for linux. My project have Imakefile, I run xmkmf to generate Makefile and after that run make to compile but I get Makefile:1059: *** missing separator. Stop. When I see this post I…
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Keep VkMainWindow on Bottom

I have an app, running on Linux, which is comprised of a VkMainWindow and several VkWindows. The desired behavior is to keep the VkMainWindow always on the bottom (and hence, all the VkWindows always on top of the VkMainWindow). The existing code…
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Installing OpenMotif from CD to minimal CentOS OS

I just did a minimal install of CentOS 6.7 (has to be 6.7) on a non-networked computer. I am now trying to a) find a version of OpenMotif that is compatible with 6.7 (64 bit) and b) install that version via CD or DVD image Would appreciate all of…
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X Motif client not applying scrollbars to a RowCol widget as expected

I have a C client for X Motif that is not showing the scrollbars for a Row Col widget as expected. The main window (toplevel) has a form added to it. In the form I add a label gadget as a top attachment to the left side. Then, I add a Quit button…
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Motif 1.2 X11 on using RowColumn widget inside a ScrolledWindow

I have a Motif client (running it on Linux). The client displays an array of buttons to the user in a tabular fashion. Obvious choice is the RowColumn widget. I want scrollbars around the array of buttons so I created a ScrolledWidget and place…
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motif application crashes while calling XtDestroyWidget

We have a 32bit Motif Gui application. Now we ported the application from Solaris to Linux and the system is crashing very frequently. On our analysis we could find that this issue happened when we are closing the forms in our application. When the…
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