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From: jkh@ardent.UUCP (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: re: window groups
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Date: 13 May 88 23:57:15 GMT
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>>    There's no XSetProperty() type of routine that I can see anywhere.
>XChangeProperty().

Ah. I misread the documentation on that the first time. I thought you could
only use it to modify an existing property, I see now that that's not the case.
I will use properties to keep track of window decks and so forth.

It's still not clearly defined what "treating a set of top level windows
as a unit" entails. I can certainly see possibly representing all of
them with one icon (and map/unmapping them en-masse on de/iconify requests),
but is that as far as it goes? What about their relative positions to
one another? Should that be maintained?

I guess this is one of those loosely defined facilities that may mean different
things to different people. Sigh. It's hard when you're trying to get a window
manager to Do The Right Thing, though..


					Jordan