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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Toolkit Question
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Date: 17 May 88 13:22:49 GMT
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     Date:  17 May 88 07:26:32 GMT
     From:  agate!web5a.berkeley.edu!shipley@presto.ig.com  (Peter Shipley)

     How does a toolkit program iconify itself?

     [code omitted]

     This seems to have no effect [yes I have a window manger running],
     is there a toolkit call that will do this for me?

There is a much-better-than-even chance that whatever window manager
you are running doesn't support this function yet.  None of the wm's
in X11R2 do so, and in fact the conventions for how they should do
so are still under discussion.

When the conventions are agreed upon, the Shell widget will support them
and XtSetValues, or a variant, on a Shell widget is a likely interface.