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From: peebles@krell.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Peebles)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: window managers and map/unmap events
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Date: 1 Dec 89 02:29:37 GMT
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I got a window manager (its mwm) that performs a particular action
on a window that gets unmapped (via the UnmapNotify event type).
I got an application that wishes to unmap itself WITHOUT THE WINDOW
MANAGER KNOWING ABOUT IT.  I don't want the window manager to perform
the action it normally performs on windows that are being unmapped.

I tried to temporarily make the window an override_redirect, unmap
it, then set the override_redirect to False, but the window manager
only sees the initial override_redirect=True and never again manages
the window.

Any window manager/event gurus out there got any ideas?

Please post a responce or send to peebles@mips.com, I'm not at
Berkeley!

Andrew Peebles
{ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!peebles  or  peebles@mips.com 
MIPS Computer Systems, 930 Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, (408) 991-0443
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