On Sat 20 Jan 2007 at 01:36:38 +0100, Rhialto wrote: > On Fri 19 Jan 2007 at 16:46:07 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > IIRC, ExMH used it. > > Conveniently, it is present in pkgsrc so it was easily installed. > However something broke somewhere, since the icon doesn't react to > anything
ExMH is a funny program in many ways :-) Not only does it use a group leader window (can be seen with xprop, look at WM_HINTS), it also gives a pre-made window to use as its icon (can be seen in the same way, or with xwininfo -wm). I tried to compare ctwm's behaviour with other window managers (the heresy!), but none appear to handle window groups at all. I randomly tried mwm, fvwm, metacity and enlightenment (the last one has its own different idea of groups). Most also had strange ideas of how to construct icons. mwm had the strange idea of embedding the given icon window into a fresh one, thereby adding a title and apparently modifying the events it can get from it. Metacity didn't do icons at all (probably relies on a tool bar app instead). Enlightenment uses its own mini-representations of the full windows. Fvwm uses a sort of icon-manager but also has icons (and manages to tame the icon window somehow, and add a separate window with a title). None of them iconify all exmh's windows together with the group leader though. (some parts of the fvwm source betray there twm-heritage by the names of variables or the phrasing of the comments) -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- You author it, and I'll reader it. \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl -- Cetero censeo "authored" delendum esse.
