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From: dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: self-iconification
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Date: 26 Apr 89 18:36:26 GMT
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>    I need to find out how to give an X program the ability to iconify itself.

The technique for doing this is set out in the "Inter-Client Communications
Manual".  The current (Public Review) draft is available from MIT.  The
public review is over,  and subject to the resolution of a few remaining
nits (none of which affect iconification) a final "blessed" version
should be available soon.

Unfortunately,  there are at present no window managers that conform
to this draft of the ICCCM.  And,  until there are,  there is no reliable
way to do what you want.  I suggest that what you should do is to wait
until the updated version of Xlib (which contains routines to iconify
and deiconify yourself) appears before attempting to implement the
"iconify" button.  And then you will have to wait until ICCCM-compliant
window managers become available before the button will actually do
anything.

	David.