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From: interran@thoreau (John Interrante)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problem with twm/InterViews
Summary: ICCCM incompatibility
Message-ID: <2274@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 89 07:03:54 GMT
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Organization: InterViews/Allegro group, Stanford University
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Cc: seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal)
In-reply-to: seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal)

Twm doesn't know about InterViews windows placed with -geometry
WxH+X+Y because InterViews 2.4 sets override_redirect true on all
windows placed with a position as well as a size.  Window managers
like twm ignore such windows and won't even move them.  Our in-house
version of InterViews now sets override_redirect true only on popup
windows, not transient, toplevel, or application windows.  We've also
made InterViews follow the conventions for setting window properties
on toplevel windows in section 4 of the ICCCM.  We will release
InterViews 2.5 when we've finished the ICCCM changes and we're sure we
can compile it with g++, probably a few weeks from now.

John Interrante (interran@thoreau.stanford.edu)