Re: FVWM: SmartPlacement ignores FvwmIconMan

From: Brady Montz <bradym_at_cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 03 Dec 1997 09:22:52 -0700

Anthony Martin <amartin_at_engr.csulb.edu> writes:

> On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Jakob Ess wrote:
>
> I think this is a bug with FvwmIconMan rather than with CleverPlacement
> (SmartPlacementIsReallySmart). There are some flags which must be set on
> windows so that their state is known. i.e. are they visible, iconified,
> unmapped, etc. CleverPlacement must know if a window is iconified or
> unmapped so it knows how to handle it. I believe that FvwmIconMan is
> setting the ICONIFIED and/or ICON_UNMAPPED flags wrong, so
> CleverPlacement believes that the window isn't actually there.
>
> I may be wrong, but perhaps the maintainer of FvwmIconMan can take a look
> at this?
>
> Tony.

Where are these flags? All FvwmIconMan does is call XMapWindow. Fvwm should be
able to figure out the iconified status of the FvwmIconMan windows without any
more than that.

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Received on Wed Dec 03 1997 - 10:23:49 GMT

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