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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: More on TransientShells
Message-ID: <1649@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 5 Aug 89 04:31:58 GMT
References: <MHARDIK.89Jul31155745@cad003.intel.com>
Distribution: comp.windows.x
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <MHARDIK.89Jul31155745@cad003.intel.com> mhardik@intel.com (Manoj Hardikar ~) writes:
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>Thanks to Donna Converse for the help on Transient Shells. But I am still
>confused.
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>The XtIntrinsic manual (pg. 45) describes TransientShell widgets as follows:

This is an error in the spec; it should be fixed in R4.  It was mistakenly
written based upon just one window manager's implementation of transients.

The only thing a transient shell does is set the transient property;
interpreting the meaning of this property is up to the window manager.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente