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From: sdo@piccolo.East.Sun.COM (Scott Oaks - Sun Consulting NYC)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: A suggestion for sticky windows in a .Xdefaults file for olvwm
Keywords: olvwm sticky
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Date: 13 May 91 15:57:43 GMT
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>> 
>> What do you think about using the window titles for determining what
>> should be sticky ?? You could have a resource that is a list of regular
>> expressions. If one of the expressions matches the window title the
>> window would be made sticky. 
>
>	The WM_CLASS attribute is designed just for this type of idetification 
>of windows. I don't belive the title bar would work nearlly as well. 

For these reasons, the WM_CLASS and WM_INSTANCE variables are checked.
However, since deskset applications and most XView applications don't
set these, I'm planning on allowing the WM_NAME field -- which is what
gets displayed in the title bar -- as well.  But since xrdb munges 
multi-worded symbols, it's not clear what form this will take.

-sdo
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-sdo (sdo@piccolo.east.sun.COM)