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Subject: Re: How can a program cause one of its windows to become iconified?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 05:26:24 GMT
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>   I am writing a motif 1.0 application with multiple top level windows.
> I would like to be able to force all top level windows to become iconified
> whenever the "main" window is iconified.  Right now, I am using
> XtUnmapWidget() to unmap them, but when they are Mapped again using
> XtMapWidget() the size and position of the windows is lost.
You can set transientFor and you can make sure they have the same window
group leader.  However some window managers (Olwm being one) ignore all
of that.  In that case you just have to map/unmap them.  I've never had
any problems with size and position being lost though.  That seems strange.


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