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From: lshea@MBUNIX.MITRE.ORG (Shea)
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Date: 6 Jun 90 18:05:47 GMT
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I am trying to obtain the window id of an xterm client that I create using 
fork and exec.  I need to do this in order to check if a particuar xterm
client exists.  If it does I want to raise it, if not, create it.
  
First I do XQueryTree to get the child windows of the root 
window; then I do XFetchName and a strcmp to obtain the appropriate child.
Setting the title and/or name options on the xterm command does not give
the window a name that I can access with XFetchName.

I resorted to modifying xterm to store the name of the xterm widget's window
using XStoreName and still no luck.

Does anyone know how to set the name of an xterm client window for later
retrieval?




Thanks,

Lynn Shea
lshea@mitre.org