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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Help!: Need to pop dialog shells with main window
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Date: 27 Mar 91 00:52:50 GMT
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> several dialog shells which may be up at any given time.  The user can
> close (unmap / unmanage) the main window, at which time the dialogs are
> automatically unmapped by Xt (Motif?).  When the main window is remapped I
> want to remap any dialogs that were mapped when the window was unmapped.
> By default the dialogs do not get remapped when the main window is
> remapped.  
What window manager are you using?  Mwm1.0 handles that all automatically
for me.  However I just discovered that Olwm2.0 doesn't map or unmap the
dialogs automatically when the parent goes away.  Does anyone know how
to fix this?  Will manually putting them in a group do it?