Re: Iconifying windows

[Dr.Peter Rottengatter <peter rottengatter de>]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 18:21:37 +0100, Dr. Peter Rottengatter <peter@arisia.rottengatter.de> wrote:

> On 18 Mar 2002 17:27:50 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Just added some code that supplies a pixmap for iconifying my app. When testing it,
> > > I noticed only the main window can be iconified in the first place; the other
> > > windows do not get iconify buttons, and they do no react in any way if I use other
> > > means to tell the WM to iconify it.
> > 
> > Some window managers don't allow iconifying dialog windows.
> > Often they will iconify the dialog along with the main window.
> 
> Fine, if it (window maker) did. But it doesn't. I might not have asked this in the 
> first place if I hadn't observed many other apps providing an iconify to "secondary"
> windows. Sylpheed is a GTK+ program doing it, the "Message View" (double-click on the 
> message opens it), the "Compose" and "Reply" functions all open windows with an
> iconify button. Then, on the other hand, you're talking dialogs, where this makes
> sense. At least with Glade terminology, most of my windows aren't dialogs.

OK, here's the solution. Even though Glade uses the "Top-Level" icon to display the
window's data, it was really a dialog. Changed that flag explicitly and iconifying
works now. This could be called a bug in Glade I suppose.

Thanks to everyone trying to help.


Cheers  Peter
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