Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!valdis From: valdis@alchemy.mcs.clarkson.edu (& Kletnieks) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: A "fix" for wall. Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 89 15:24:50 GMT References: <8903290045.aa18749@SPARK.BRL.MIL> <9740087@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY Lines: 23 In-reply-to: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk's message of 6 Apr 89 20:20:26 GMT In article awm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) writes: >What you are saying, then, is that whenever a window system terminal >emulator is iconified, it should _automatically_ deny write permission >to the pty it owns (kind of like "biff n" and "mesg n")? Whtat I'd like to see is an 'xterm' that when it receives a 'bell' character while iconified, would reset it's icon bitmap so window managers like 'twm' would flip it. SOmething like the 'xbiff' utility does for mail. >Are you listening, xterm implementors? >This should be trivial, anyone care to post a patch? This one isn't so trivial - anybody got a good description of how to gell if you're iconified? Flipping the bitmap is easy, but I don't wanna do it if the xterm isn't iconified. >Aled Morris >systems programmer Valdis Kletnieks Sr. Systems Programmer Clarkson University