[Info-vax] DECwindows: keep a window always on top?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Jojimbo wrote:
> On Sep 15, 5:27 am, H Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote:
>> On 13 sep, 22:46, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>> remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way with DECwindows/CDE to specify that a window is always on
>>> top?  I would like some special windows always to be on top and never
>>> to get covered by other windows.
> 
> DECwindows is motif and the motif docs say this is impossible.  Even
> though
> this doc section is 12 years old it's the only thing I could find.
> 
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/motif-faq/part4/section-8.html
> 
> But the faq as a whole has been updated regularly so...
> Finding what resources an X app uses can be quite challenging.  One
> approach is to just look
> for ascii strings in the executable.  VMS compiles put static strings
> toward the top so it's not too bad.
> 
> for example: dump/page sys$system:decw$terminal
> 
> Good luck,  Jim
> 

I have a "STRINGS" utility.  ISTR that it worked.  If you want it, I 
could try to put it on my ComCast web page where you might be able to 
download it.