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From: olin@DELFI.UDAC.UU.SE
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: User-WM communication
Message-ID: <8909220829.AA00900@korfu.udac.uu.se>
Date: 22 Sep 89 08:29:13 GMT
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   From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
   Organization: The Internet


       When starting a client the user should be able to specify which
       room(s) the client should appear in.

       I can't find any way to do this, not in the ususal doc, nor in the
       ICCCM.  Is it at all possible to do this?

   Since there is no standard for what a pseudo-root or ROOM is, it is not
   surprising that there is no standard way to specify this.
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The issue here is not the non-existent standard for pseudo-roots, is it? The problem, 
I think, is that you cannot communicate information about a client to the window
manager without the client knowing it -- no matter what the information is.
It doesn't have anything to do with pseudo-roots.

Suppose I wanted a specific client to be decorated with a frog in the title bar
and jump around on the screen, then I would like to be able to issue a command like:

	xterm -name foo -xrm " foo*WindowType: 'frog' " &

And later let the window manager read this and act accordingly. 

Isn't there any (non-standard) way to do this? If not, why is this so?
Are there any reasons why the user shouldn't give such information to the
window manager?



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