window list skip/hide

[Ben Williams <benw webmedia com au>]

Hi all,

I want to be able to stop a window (xmms) from appearing in the window 
list. I know there is a way to stop windows from appearing in the window 
list - the "skip window list" hint that can be set by a client - and 
things like gkrellm can do this, so I know the functionality is there. 
However, xmms doesn't have a "hide from window list" type option in its 
preferences.

another way to ask this might be, is there a way to set window hints 
externally (independent of the app itself)? if i could set the window 
hints for xmms from some external app, that would be fine. or if i can 
set the hints for a specific window via metacity somehow.

if setting window hints externally isn't workable, i guess my only 
option is to wait until a pref for this gets included in xmms (i'm not 
an X hacker, so adding this is out of my league).

I'm running gnome 2.4 on Fedora Core 1, using the default WM (metacity).

 - Ben Williams
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