mkellehe@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Murph Michael J Kelleher) (10/26/88)
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
dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal) (10/26/88)
> 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? Communications between clients and window managers are specified in the Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual. Look in ~x11/doc/conventions The R2 and R3 distributions contain a preliminary draft of this manual. It is currently undergoing revision and review under the auspices of the X consortium. A new version should be available before the end of the year. We are trying as hard as possible to ensure that the new version will be compatible with the version in both the R2 and R3 distributions, but complete compatibility is impossible (in some cases, the conventions described in the R2 draft have bugs). The manual is written in terms of the X protocol, rather than Xlib calls. This is so that clients inter-operate properly even if they are written in different languages. After the revised manual is approved, appropriate changes to Xlib will be developed, and the various window managers will have to be modified to conform. I realize that the schedule for reaching agreement on the conventions is a problem, in that it will be some time before everyone has conforming window managers and Xlib implementations. Unfortunately, there is no alternative - time is needed to design, debug and implement these conventions. David.
dshr@SUN.COM (David Rosenthal) (10/26/88)
Ooops. I forgot that R3 won't actually contain the draft of the manual.
It has been replaced by the following notice:
The Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual that appeared here in
draft form in Releases 1 and 2 has not been approved by the X Consortium.
A revised set of conventions is under review by the Consortium for
standardization; that process is expected to conclude at the end of
November. The final manual will be made available once it has been
approved.
David.