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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm under X11?
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.163530.25115@lokkur.dexter.mi.us>
Date: 5 Dec 90 16:35:30 GMT
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wnp@iiasa.ac.at (Wolf PAUL ) writes:

>Has anyone done anything at all to make elm more useful under X11?

>Such as allowing it to come up as an icon, and actually delete and/or
>save messages everytime it is re-iconified, rather than wait until it
>is exited?

Two issues here, really.  First, is the performance you ask for
really desireable?  I'd say no.  Currently I run elm in an xterm
window to our mail host.  Iconifying the window usually means I
want screen space, not deletion/saving.

Second, unless I radically misunderstand X there is no way for a non-X
application to detect such an event.  An X version of elm would be 
nice, but it's far far in the future.
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