Mun wrote: > I meant to say the differences between Motif and GTK. Note that I have > corrected the subject. > > I'm mainly interested in functionality differences between the two. For > example, with GTK one can change the font via the menu > (Edit->Select Font...). With X11, you cannot. > > Regards, > -- > Mun
hi, a difference between athena/motif and gtk that is important to some (i.e. possibly just me) is that athena and motif both honour the x resources database while gtk does not. man xrdb for details. the practical consequence of this is that with athena and motif, you can use x resources to tell vim where its window should appear and it will appear there. with gtk you may need to position the window manually with the mouse. using vim's built-in commands for positioning and resizing the window may not be executed until after the window has already been manually positioned by the user and so isn't always an adequate substitute for the x resources method. however, i suspect that very few people have this problem. the modern gtk version is far more commonly used and i'm sure it's prettier if you display the menu. cheers, raf -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
