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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: User-WM communication
Message-ID: <1855@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 22 Sep 89 18:04:17 GMT
References: <8909220829.AA00900@korfu.udac.uu.se>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <8909220829.AA00900@korfu.udac.uu.se> olin@DELFI.UDAC.UU.SE writes:
>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?

If you are using the X Toolkit you can write an implementation of
VendorShell that supports the new resources you need.  This is exactly
what VendorShell is for; it's expected that any supplier of a window
manager that supports non-standard protocols will also supply a version of
VendorShell that supports the protocols on the client side.

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