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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?
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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".