Re: XSetWMHints Iconization Fails Redhat 7.9 Gnome 3.28.2

[Jonas Ådahl <jadahl gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 07:25:06PM +0000, Kent E. Eschenberg via wm-spec-list wrote:
> Sorry this is a little off-topic. It's an issue with the old hints. It worked in Gnome 2. Requests to set 
> the initial window state to iconized are ignored. No error messages. The program is in C. Is there a better 
> way to send such a hint to Gnome?

It's the correct way, only that since a few years back, it seems mutter,
the X11 window manager, treated MapRequest as unminimize not only for
existing window but for new ones as well. The reason for this was that
otherwise certain Wine applications would incorrectly start up as
minimized.

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774333 .


Jonas

> Thanks!
> Kent Penn State U

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