Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU!RWS From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: multiple window applications & window managers Message-ID: <871210084319.6.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 87 13:43:00 GMT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 25 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 87 16:13:59 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Steven Sherman No window manager we have tried this with behaves very well. I spent a few minutes using CLX to experiment with two windows. I can find no problems under uwm. (The latest) wm definitely gets confused about the unmap (no icon appears) and remap (frame comes back, but no window inside). Of course, I don't know what properties you have set on the windows (I didn't set any), and how that might affect the results. As usual, lack of information is likely to produce lack of results (perhaps you could produce a simplified program to demonstrate the problem). My questions are 1) is there something more rational than merely doing an unmap or destroy to get rid of the window (as appropriate) No. and 2) is there an inherint reason why every window manager seems to do this Shouldn't be.