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From: coleman@sunny.DAB.GE.COM (Richard Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: want twm to leave icons alone
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Date: 22 Aug 90 13:25:54 GMT
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|> >
|> > =}I don't
|> > =}want twm to add the icon name at the bottom.  Any suggestions.
|> >
|>
|> 
|> In your ~/.twmrc, place the lines
|> 
|> IconManagerDontShow
|> {
|> 	"dclock"
|> 	"xeyes"
|> 	"xbiff"
|> }
|> 
|> for example.  TWM will then not display these icon names in it's list.
|> This is clearly explained in the user manual.
|> 


The icon manager utility in twm, is a special client started by twm
(if you use ShowIconManager in .twmrc) that will have a button for each
client on the screen.  This button acts as an icon for that particular client.
When used in conjunction with IconifyByUnmapping this allows you to
replace all your icons on the screen with the icon manager.  The function
IconManagerDontShow mentioned above just tells the icon manager to ignore
a particular client and to not have a button for it.  It has nothing
to do with how the window manager handles a client's icon that is on the
screen.

I'm coming to the conclusion that twm does not have the facility
to do what I want.  Maybe it's time to start hacking code.


        Richard Coleman
        G.E. Aerospace
        coleman@sunny.dab.ge.com