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From: colas@lemur.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
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Subject: Re: Would like twm to ``remember'' changed icon positions ...
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Date: 27 Dec 90 09:45:27 GMT
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In article <88348@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
writes:
>   Currently twm (X11R4/PL18) ``remembers'' the positions 

It does not remembers anythings, since the windows stay on screen at their
positions...

> and icon states

Their status Normal/Iconic/Withdrawn is saved on property WM_STATE on the
window (ICCCM)

>   I've looked through the twm source to try to see where it saves new
> window positions to see if there was a simple hack preventing twm from
> doing the same thing for icon positions.  But I haven't found anything
> obvious.  Since I don't program X and don't even know if my desired
> behavior is ICCCM compliant, there's not much use in my proceeding on my
> own.  Would anyone care to comment on either the feasibility or ICCCM
> compliance of twm saving icon position state across invocations?

It's feasable... Just use a twm-specific property like WM_STATE...
But not within the scope of ICCCM as it is.
However, it would not violate ICCCM, since this functionality doesnt (yet?)
exist in ICCCM...

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