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From: colas@mirsa.inria.fr (Colas NAHABOO)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Reparenting WM's
Message-ID: <126@mirsa.inria.fr>
Date: 9 Feb 89 17:35:25 GMT
References: <PINKAS.89Feb6133558@hobbit.intel.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Koala Project -- BULL/INRIA
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From article <PINKAS.89Feb6133558@hobbit.intel.com>, by pinkas@hobbit.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~):
> 
> In porting this application, the power that be decided that the mechanism
> we would use would be to raise the xterm from which the application was
> 	...
>
> This works fine when there is no window manager, or with uwm.  However,
> every other window manager that I have (dxwm, twm) reparents the xterm.  As
> a result, the XRaiseWindow() has no affect on the xterm window, and I hang
> in the loop.

GWM (Generic Window Manager) handles this case (raise/lower in absolute and
relative to another window). GWM has been selected on the OSF Catalog
distribution and a version fully implementing the ICCCM should be ready for
the X11R4 release.

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