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From: mckie@nas.nasa.gov (William McKie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: OpenWindows icons front or back
Keywords: icon openwindows
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Date: 9 Dec 90 22:43:33 GMT
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Reply-To: mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov (William McKie)
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We're curious about how icons are placed (front to back) in OpenWindows
2.0.  Typically, we have a mix of shelltool, cmdtool, and xterm windows
on the workspace, in various overlapping situations.  We have the
OpenWindows.IconLocation resource set to "bottom".  When we left click
on a window's Window Button, the icon is placed at the bottom of the
screen as expected, but sometimes it is placed in front of another
window, and sometimes behind it.  We would like to have icons always be
placed in front, so we don't lose track of them.  Is there a way to get
this behavior?  If not, what is the rule that olwm is using to decide
whether to place the icon in front of or behind another window?

-Bill McKie
mckie@sky.arc.nasa.gov