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From: duanev@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM (Duane Voth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is xplaces possible?
Summary: client command line args that talk to thw wm
Message-ID: <356@kauai.ACA.MCC.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 19:04:43 GMT
References: <2779@ninja.Solbourne.COM>
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
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In article <2779@ninja.Solbourne.COM>, toml@Solbourne.COM (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.

Hear hear!  I want to add weight to this idea.  I think we are going to find
several places where a window manager is going to need configuration
information specific to each *instance* of an application.


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