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From: toml@marvin.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Window manager hints: window group problem
Message-ID: <TOML.91Feb26144808@marvin.Solbourne.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 91 19:48:08 GMT
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Sender: toml@Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
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In-Reply-To: epstein@trwacs.UUCP's message of 26 Feb 91 18:30:30 GMT

} We're trying to build an application which has multiple top
} level windows, which we're then trying to group together using
} the window manager hints.  Our goal is that when we iconify the
} "master" window, the other top level window should be iconified
} as well.
} 
} The first of the following programs creates a top level window and
} displays the window ID.  The second program, when given the window
} ID from the first as a command line parameter, will create another
} top level window with the window_group field of the window manager
} hints set to the first window.
} 
} We've run these programs under mwm (1.1), twm, and olwm on X11R4
} on Sun 3 & Sun 4 systems.  Iconifying the first window does not
} iconify the second window.
} 
} Is this a misreading of ICCCM, a bug in the programs, or a problem
} with the window managers?  If it's a problem with the window managers,
} are there any window managers where this works properly?  Is this
} anywhere in the FAQ (I couldn't find it)?

The ICCCM doesn't really specify how window managers should use group hints.
I thought at one point twm would iconify a group if the leader was iconified,
I haven't tried it lately.

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Tom LaStrange        toml@Solbourne.COM