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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Popup Shells & Iconify Operation
Message-ID: <8911151341.AA27327@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 89 13:41:47 GMT
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>	I understand completely why this happens.
> What I want to know is...   What is the 'correct'
> programming technique to overcome this problem?
> (ie. I want the popups to go away on an iconfiy,
> and come back when the de-iconify happens)

I'd recommend that you set the WM_TRANSIENT_FOR hint and
strongly lobby the window manager developers for a standard
interpretation of this hint along the lines you've sketched.

Until there is a standard interpretation, you've no choice
but to manually unmap the popups when you notice that your
main window has been unmapped.  Or only claim to run under
window managers that interpret WM_TRANSIENT_FOR the way
you need.