Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:30:06 -0600 From: Bruce Albrecht <bruce.albrecht@seag.fingerhut.com> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Prefered X Window Manager? Message-ID: <199711121630.KAA27012@gf006e0.seag.fingerhut.com> In-Reply-To: <3469D44C.B1D829B@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <000701bce570$9ed09960$0100a8c0@einstein.cybersurf.net> <lwra91akaj.fsf@terror.hungry.com> <199711120429.WAA19960@zuhause.mn.org> <3469D44C.B1D829B@fsl.noaa.gov>
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Sean Kelly writes: > [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] > > Sorry to restart this thread, but I was wondering if any of the WMs > > other than olvwm support pushtack in the frame menu so that pop-up > > windows stick around after one clicks on the "OK" (or whatever) button > > that normally causes the window to go away. I'm not all that fond of > > olvwm, but that's one thing I liked about it. > > OpenLook achieves that with the WM_DELETE_WINDOW protocol, so you can use > just about any window manager out there. For example, mwm users would > choose "Close" to achieve the same effect. I don't know the exact mechanics, but the olvwm feature I was referring to allows one to indicate that the window should not go away even if the program deletes it. Sort of the opposite of "Close".home | help
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