On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 10:16:29AM -0800, Elliot Sowadsky wrote:
> <<
> > Is there a way to find out what page an icon was on before it was opened?
> > I have a program that when it opens itself, it opens on the page i'm on, not
> > the page its icon was on. If i knew what page the icon was on, i can
> > redirect it and my view back to that page.
>
> Usually, the window is deiconified on the page with the icon. If
> it deiconifies to the current page, the reason is probably that
> the icon overlapped the current page by a feew pixels.
> >>
>
> The (xview) program deiconifies on its own, not via fvwm.
> The icon can be more than one page away from current.
> But if i can grab the icon's page, i can swing back to it.
Hm, I can't think of anything to do this. You can only find out
the window's position with the $[w.x] and $[w.y] variables, but
not the icon's position.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Nov 27 2001 - 03:18:22 GMT