Not sure, but you could try looking at the options for MWMxxx and
HintOveride
they are all documented in the man page.
See if that helps,
Brad
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Duane Guingrich wrote:
> I am having a problem with FVWM not behaving the same as
> mwm when I set the TransientFor hint property. What I am trying to
> do is make the window of a separate task behave like it is a dialog
> of my main task. I am doing the following steps:
>
> 1) Run my program called 'MyTask'
> 2) MyTask spawns the standalone FontSel program using a pipe
> to get the selected font from FontSel's standard output.
> 3) MyTask looks for the WindowID of FontSel based on its window
> name using a timer and QueryTree().
> 4) When MyTask finds the WindowID of FontSel, it calls
> XSetTransientForHint() using the WindowID of MyTask
> as the parent window and the found WindowID of FontSel
> as the dialog window.
>
> When I do this under mwm, the stacking order is maintained
> so that clicking on the window for MyTask will caused the window
> for FontSel to be raised as well. Under FVWM, the two windows
> continue to operate independently and clicking on the window for
> MyTask raises it in front of the window for FontSel.
>
> When I saw that this technique didn't work under FVWM,
> I tried setting the windowgroup for the FontSel window to the
> WindowID of MyTask, but this didn't work either.
>
> Duane
>
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