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From: kjx@comp.vuw.ac.nz (R James Noble)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is xplaces possible?
Message-ID: <1989Oct16.032042.25226@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: 16 Oct 89 03:20:42 GMT
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Reply-To: kjx@comp.vuw.ac.nz (R James Noble)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
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	I have a trivial program that traverses the window tree, and
prints out the WM_COMMAND and WM_CLIENT_MACHINE property for each
window, in a form suitable for execution by a shell. It also attempts
to find suitable values for the -geometry flag, which it prints out.
It seems that most applications upon getting multiple -geom flags
ignore all but the last, so I can print the command, and also print my
calculated geometry and all works as expected... for example:

xexec offramp.comp.vuw.ac.nz xload -geometry 100x100-120+10 \ 
	-geometry 112x80+2+19

	There are two problems I have found: firstly, I
currently treat icons as uniconified windows (finding the unmapped
window with WM_COMMAND set), and secondly, with certain applications
(such as an xterm with scrollbar set) the window size I calculate
(window size divided by resize increment) does not give the correct
geometry specification for the window. I believe the ICCCM et al. may
go some way to solving this problem.		

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RJ Noble,  Victoria University of Wellington,  New Zealand
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