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Why does Tk look funny in CDE/VUE?

April 26, 2017CDE funny look tk VUE

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Why does Tk look funny in CDE/VUE?

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The problem is that this strangely designed window managers set X resources for *foreground, *background, *Font, etc…, which gets imposed on Tk. The real problem is that CDE apps rely on these resources being set (no sane defaults). The following is a quick wrapper solution. The solution is provided as a shell script which wraps around any Tk program which you might normally run. It is assumed that you have xrdb and the program in your regular path.