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From: palmer@MWUNIX.MITRE.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xnews & X11R4 wm compatibility?
Message-ID: <9002011839.AA27924@mwunix.mitre.org>
Date: 1 Feb 90 18:39:07 GMT
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>  Subject: Re: xnews & X11R4 wm compatibility?
>  Message-Id: <131073@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
>  References: <7677@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
>  Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
>  To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
>  
>  In article <7677@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wolf@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.wolf,ho,)
writes:
>  >	The system seems to "eat" iconized windows.  Whenever I iconify
>  >	a window under the xnews server, the icon disappears completely off
>  >	the screen.  I can't think of any way of de-iconifying these
>  >	windows.
>
>	misc!jdn@sun.com (Jeff Nisewanger) writes:
>
>  	What window manager etc. are you using? I've never seen that happen.

If you're running twm make certain that you don't have the IconRegion variable
set - or, if you do, make certain that it's correct. Otherwise, you may iconify
your windows right off your screen. :)

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Forrest Palmer (x5668)
Systems Programmer/Administrator
MITRE Corp. - Washington Center

palmer@mwunix.mitre.org
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