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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Deiconifying an mwm icon
Message-ID: <9104020436.AA08264@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 2 Apr 91 04:36:03 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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> Can anyone tell me how to force mwm to deiconify a TopLevel widget in
> my application which has been iconified?  Specifically, my
> applictation has several topLevel widgets and there are times when I
> want to force deiconification of certain widgets.

I can't speak about mwm specifically, but the ICCCM specifies a way for
a client to request - not demand - that a top-level window be
deiconified.  This is to simply map the top-level window.

> I've also tried sending a ClientMessage with message type set the the
> return from XInternAtom(display, "WM_CHANGE_STATE", True) and window
> set to DefaultRootWindow(display).  This client message does not
> cause any X error but also does not cause my icon to be deiconified.

With the additional qualifiers that format is 32 and data[0] is
IconicState, this is how to request a change from Normal to Iconic; it
has nothing to do with going the other way.

					der Mouse

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