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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
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    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.