Red Hat's Motif Users Guide

This is MOTIF as it should be:

Easy to install,
Easy to use,
Easy to maintain.

Use Red Hat Motif to:

• Develop applications for your commercial UNIX-using customers or employer.
• Learn Motif programming for personal/career advancement.
• Control and run Motif based programs on your Linux system.
• Use the 'mwm' window manager.

1. Introducing OSF/Motif
1. The X Window System and OSF/Motif
2. Understanding Windows
1. Window Hierarchy
2. Window Geometry
3. Interacting with Windows
3. The Look and Feel of Motif
4. Starting X and the Motif Window Manager
5. Restoring Default Behavior
2. Using the Motif Window Manager
1. Interacting with mwm
1. Using the Mouse
2. Using the Keyboard
2. Accessing Window Managing Functions
3. Selecting a Window for Input
4. Raising a Window
5. Using the mwm Window Menu
6. Moving Windows
7. Resizing Windows
8. Maximizing Windows
9. Using Icons
1. Changing a Window into an Icon
2. Moving Icons
3. Restoring a Window from an Icon
10. Closing Windows
11. Using the Default Root menu
12. Using the mwm Virtual Desktop
3. Interacting with Motif Applications
1. Exploring the Main Window
2. Using Buttons
1. Using PushButtons
2. Using ToggleButtons
3. Using Menus
1. Using Pulldown Menus
2. Using Menu Shortcuts
3. Using Popup Menus
4. Using Option Menus
5. Using TearOff Menus
4. Using DialogBoxes
5. Using Adjustable Components
1. Using PanedWindows
2. Using ScrolledWindows
3. Using Scales
6. Using Lists
7. Entering and Editing Text
1. Multiple Fonts and renditions
8. Using ComboBoxes
9. Using Containers
1. Selection
10. Using Notebooks
11. Using SpinBoxes
12. Using Keyboard Traversal
13. Using Drag and Drop
1. Starting a Drag
2. During the Drag
3. Dropping on a Destination
4. Getting Help
5. Canceling a Drag
4. Using Customization Features
1. Application Resources
1. How Application Resource Databases Are Set Up
2. Resource Specification Syntax
1. Using #include in Resource Files
2. Assigning Resource Values
3. Using Command-Line Options
4. Modifying the Resource Files
5. Using the xrdb Client Program
6. Using Internationalized Applications
1. Internationalization and CSText
2. Message Catalogs
5. Customizing the Motif Window Manager
1. Specifying Colors
1. Coloring Client Window Frames
2. Using Window Frame Pixmaps
3. Coloring Icons
4. Coloring Menus
5. Coloring Mattes
2. Specifying Window Decorations
3. Sizing Windows
4. Controlling Window Placement
5. Sizing Icons
6. Placing Icons
7. Specifying Fonts
8. Setting Input Focus Policy
9. Localizing mwm
6. Advanced Motif Window Manager Customization
1. Understanding the Resource Description File
2. Modifying the Window Menu
3. Creating New Menus
1. Menu Items
2. Mnemonics and Accelerators
3. Functions
4. Modifying Mouse Button Bindings
1. Default Button Bindings
2. Button Binding Syntax
3. Modifying Button Bindings
4. Making a New Button Binding Set
5. Keyboard Bindings
1. Default Keyboard Bindings
2. Keyboard Binding Syntax
3. Modifying Keyboard Bindings
4. Making a New Keyboard Binding Set
6. Setting up mwm's Virtual Desktop Panning
1. Editing .mwmrc for Virtual Desktop Panning
2. Editing .Xdefaults for Virtual Desktop Panning
7. Controlling Client Access to mwm Windows
7. Customizing Motif Applications
1. Customizing Text Display
1. Renditions
2. Render Tables
2. Specifying Font Lists
3. Using Resources for Drag and Drop
1. Protocol Resources
2. Graphic Resources
3. Color Resources
4. Search Paths for Pixmaps and Bitmaps

1. OSF/Motif Keyboard and Mouse Operations

This is just OSFs User Guide in a Red Hat Cover. The Motif User Guide wasn't very good when it was created, and it hasn't aged very well.