Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: XView Conversion Problem Message-ID: <2954@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 18 Feb 90 21:36:42 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 21 >The problem occurs when the window is iconified and the program >attempts to change the icon (This program monitors several log files >and changes the icon when an entry is made in one of the logs); the >icon does not change and cannot be de-iconified by simply clicking on >the icon, [...more problems with the new icon] > >I think I can rule out window manager problems, as this occurs with >uwm and gwm, as well as twm. I don't think you necessarily can rule out window manager problems; you may just be dealing with three broken window managers. The X11R4 "twm"s handling of the icon window hint is *definitely* broken, and at least some of the problems you list sound like the problems it exhibited when I asked the XView "shelltool" to change its icon - it basically doesn't properly claim ownership of the new icon window. See my recent posting of a fix to it. The icon window handling of the others may be broken as well (or, in the case of "gwm", the Turing-Complete Window Manager, it may be that whatever LISP code is handling that is broken).