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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <551b0d69-f255-4759-96bd-a7001137bed4 at s6g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>, Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> writes:
> 
> Way back in the dim dark recesses I recall having my pre-Motif
> DECwindows VAXstation allowing windows to be selected for input focus
> without moving to the top; one of the window corner widgets did the
> popping, but clicking in the window itself would select it without
> moving it up.

   Yep, I miss that.

> I think it was a line entry in one of the setup files but I don't have
> a record of it; the disk with VMS V5.5-2 and the old DECwindows is
> sitting on a shelf these days though the workstation is still in use
> (it turned 20 this past August based on purchase date ;)
> 
> When Motif came out I put in a call to DEC to find out how to keep
> this behavior and was told it was not possible; Motif was 'copying'
> aspects of the ms-windows interface as standard and automatic pop on
> selection was a mandatory feature of the interface.  I never pursued
> it further.

   IIRC pre-Motif X11 had "modal" dialog boxes which would always be on
   top.  Motif removed that.