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From: mrs@warlock.Philips.Com (Mark R. Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Which window manager is up?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 19:02:37 GMT
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Why would an application programmer care which wndow manager
is running?

Well, I found the need to know when I wrote a program 
using XVIEW that primarily ran under olwm. Unfortunately,
when users used mwm istead, some of the functionality
was lost.

Specifically,  XVIEW's pushpin facility works under olwm
      but not under mwm (or twm for taht matter).
      The pushpin functionality is
      easily mimiced (in fact, I created a pushpin type
      functionality using sun's old sunview GUI).

Therefore, if olwm is running I use XVIEW's pushpin
facility, if another window manager is running I 
call my own procedures that reproduce the pushpin
functionality. So teh question still remains, how
do you determine which window manager is running.


can 
      ,