3.2.5 Portability and Configurability



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3.2.5 Portability and Configurability

The VISTA user interface is fully compliant with the X Window System and makes use of all features of the X Toolkit (like the resource mechanism) to provide the user and tool integrator with mechanisms for configuration and customization. This compliance to de-facto standards also enables the VISTA user interface to work with all custom window systems and window managers, as long as they are based on the X Window System. To demonstrate this fact, different window managers and different setups of operating parameters have been used for the creation of the screen dumps that will follow in subsequent figures.


Martin Stiftinger
Thu Oct 13 13:51:43 MET 1994