mkellehe@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Murph Michael J Kelleher) (10/29/88)
In article <4983@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> I write: >Help. > >I know that one is not supposed to assume there is a window manager in >an X application, but I want to know if there is a way to request >iconification of an application from the program. Perhaps a hint? > >Murph >mkellehe@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU In the following few days I got several responses which are summarized here WITHOUT the consent of any of the writers. For anyone else out there with a similar problem, note chdana's advice and Pete Shipley's code. For those of you with questions in general about the ICCCM, note Matt Landau's note and David's as well. 1>From trwind!diamond.bbn.com!mlandau Wed Oct 26 11:08:07 1988 1>To: polyslo!mkellehe 1> 1>The details of how an X11 application communicates with a window manager 1>(or with another application) are being worked out in the Inter-Client 1>Communications Conventions Manual (aka the ICCCM)... 1> 1> Matt Landau Waiting for a flash of enlightenment 1> mlandau@bbn.com in all this blood and thunder 2>From csun!sm.unisys.com!ucla-cs!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!SUN.COM!dshr 2> 2>Communications between clients and window managers are specified in 2>the Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual. Look in 2> 2> ~x11/doc/conventions 2> 2> David. 3>You should have been in class. WM_HINTS property has an initial state 3>field that really is just an "iconic state request" field rather than 3>just an init value. Change the property with an Xlib call 3>XSetWMHints function call. 3> 3>cd 3>-- 3>Charles Dana | chdana@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU 3>Computer Science Department | or 3>California Polytechnic State University | ucbvax!voder!polyslo!chdana 3>San Luis Obispo, CA. 93407 | 4>Hint: 4>set the window mng. hints to map man iconic 4>then unmap the desired window; Xsync; map the window. 4> 4> 4> -Pete 4> 4>void 4>closewin() 4>{ 4> 4> XWMHints xwmh; 4> 4> extern Display *disp; 4> extern Widget toplevel; 4> 4> xwmh.flags = StateHint; 4> xwmh.initial_state = IconicState; 4> 4> XSetWMHints(disp, XtWindow(toplevel), &xwmh); 4> XFlush(disp); 4> XtUnmapWidget(toplevel); 4> XtMapWidget(toplevel); 4> 4> return; 4>} 4> 4> 4>Pete Shipley: 4>email: shipley@widow.berkeley.edu Flames: cimarron@postgres.berkeley.edu 4> uunet!lurnix!shipley or ucbvax!shipley or pyramid!hippo!{ root peter } 4>Spelling corections: /dev/null Quote: "Anger is an energy" Thanks for all the help. It works like a champ! Murph mkellehe@polyslo