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toplevel in another toplevel as virtual root

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Christian Bednarek

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Jun 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/4/98
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Hi!

Any chance to get some toplevel windows (each of them showing
some files in a directory) to be some kind of children in another
toplevel? This would look like Windoze managing windows on a root
window. If this window is iconified, all others are iconified with
it (same for deiconifiying).

tia,
Christian

Eric Galluzzo

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Jun 4, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/4/98
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Christian Bednarek wrote:

Well, I'm not entirely sure if you're talking about MDI (multiple
document interface) or "grouping" separate top-level windows so that
they all iconify/deiconify together. If the former, see the previous
discussions on this in this newsgroup (just search Dejanews or whatever
for MDI); if the latter, check out the various "wm" commands (e.g. "wm
group") on the "wm" man page. As a side note, MDI is not used very
often, if at all, in the UNIX world; usually separate toplevels or other
schemes (like having a tabbed notebook with a tab per "window") are used
instead.

- Eric

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