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From: inoue@sunburst.crd.ge.com (Takesi Inoue)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Question about (de)iconifying child processes
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Date: 4 Mar 91 20:05:15 GMT
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Reply-To: inoue@sunburst.crd.ge.com (Takesi Inoue)
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Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY
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I have a question.

What I want to do is to start emacs processes as subprocesses of one
X application. How can I let emacs be iconified and deiconified from 
the parent process?
I also want to tell emacs to be raised when it is covered by other
windows. How can the parent application tell a window manager to do
so?

I can manipulate windows from inside using XIconifyWindow or
smt like that. In order to do that from outside in cases above,
I think the parent process should know at least the window ID of
child processes' top windows so that the parent asks its window
manager to change child process window state. How can I get that? In my case,
a parent process has more than one emacs process started with
the same command line and what the parent knows about its children
is only their process IDs. Parent cannot identify each of its children
via process name, window name, or icon name.

Can I get other processes' toplevel window IDs via ICCCM?

Thanks in advance.

					Takeshi Inoue
					GE CR&D
					inoue@crd.ge.com