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From: dpb@viking.UUCP (Don Bennett           433-3311, 408)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: InputOnly Curiosity
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Date: 10 Feb 90 02:26:23 GMT
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> Does anyone have a concrete example of where you'd use an InputOnly
> window?

Once upon a time, I had a window that I didn't want the window
manager to iconify.  To prevent an icon from ever appearing on the 
screen, I used an input-only window as the icon-window hint, so
that when the icon window was mapped, you wouldn't see it on the screen.

That's probably no longer the right thing to do. 
(Not that it ever was, but it worked...)

   Don Bennett           (408)433-3311
   dpb@frame.com
   Frame Technology