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From: toml@Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xplaces vs. twm, et al
Message-ID: <2081@ninja.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 89 16:08:38 GMT
Organization: Solbourne Computer Inc., Longmont, Co.
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< The contributed program 'xplaces' looks like a useful tool to have,
< especially when it has some additional stuff wrapped around it to make it
< usable by a nontechnical end-user.  (there's always a...)But according to
< its README file it only works with window mgrs which don't reparent, or
< which pass along the properties they get from reparented windows.  Alas,
< twm doesn't seem to fall into these categories.
< 
< Is support for what's needed by xplaces planned for twm?  Does the window mgr
< used in Motif have this feature?  As near as I can tell, if the window mgr
< doesn't cooperate, xplaces won't work.  Have I overlooked another way of
< doing what xplaces does (take a snapshot of window layout and preserving it
< in a form which allows the layout to be easily recreated in future sessions)?

Both twm and xplaces need to be fixed.  twm (X11R4) will place the ICCCM
specified WM_STATE property on client windows.  xplaces needs to be fixed
to go looking for the windows with that property.

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Tom LaStrange

Solbourne Computer Inc.    ARPA: toml@Solbourne.COM
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