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From: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is xplaces possible?
Message-ID: <3623@arisia.Xerox.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 02:57:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: toml@Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)

In article <2779@ninja.Solbourne.COM>, toml@Solbourne (Tom LaStrange) writes:
>What I almost need is a standard -ignore "some string here" option that
>all clients will ignore.  This string could then be looked for in the
>WM_COMMAND property when the window manager goes to reparent the
>window.  The window manager could parse the string for any options to
>restore the client to the state from which it was saved.

I think it would be even more useful to have an arbitrary "-property P=D"
type of switch, defining properties which all conforming clients would
agree to place on their top-level windows.

Bill
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