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From: keith@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Keith Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Positioning Widgets With hpwm
Message-ID: <101950058@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 28 Oct 89 05:27:35 GMT
References: <90001@ge.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>I have an application with a few topLevelShellWidgetClass
>widgets that are movable by the user (using hpwm).
>
>Is there any way (ie. any resource) to tell hpwm not to 
>display the "origin/size echo window" that appears in the
>middle of the screen (maybe *showEchoWindow: FALSE)?
>

A couple of options you might consider:

1. Turn off interactivePlacement (a little drastic, perhaps).

2. Give your windows ``user'' position hints in WM_NORMAL_HINTS
   (set the USSize flag). Hpwm will interpret this to mean that
   the user has set the location of the window (e.g. from the
   command line) and interactive placement will not be done.

3. If you have a ``primary'' window, then make your other top level
   windows ``secondary'' to this window by setting the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR
   property. Interactive placement is done on primary windows, but not
   on secondary windows. (Note: windows related like this will be
   minimized together.)

Hope this helps. (OK, so it's more than a couple options!)


Keith M. Taylor
Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis, Oregon