Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!mcvax!piring.cwi.nl!guido From: guido@piring.cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: User-WM communication Message-ID: <8417@boring.cwi.nl> Date: 22 Sep 89 10:52:39 GMT References: <8909212302.AA21454@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@cwi.nl Lines: 22 rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes: >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. The original question was about rooms. I suppose a better way to do rooms than to use pseudo-rooms is to perform room switching in the window manager by simply iconizing all windows in the current room and de-iconizing the ones in the new room. (And I suspect the original author was planning to do it this way in gwm -- BTW, I'd be interested in getting a copy of that code). The question then boils down to "is there a way to pass arbitrary information?" to a window manager on client invocation, without modifying clients. One could qualify this with question with "Xt clients" or "clients using a particular toolkit" and get different answers, but I suspect in general the answer is no: all information (like the -geometry string) you can specify as resources or command line options on client invocation seem to have very specific uses. -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@cwi.nl or mcvax!guido or guido%cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net "Repo man has all night, every night."