vtwm unmaps iconmanagers to NOTHING

[reikred]

Difference between vtwm and twm: When closing an icon manager in vtwm, the iconmanager disappears completely, whereas in twm it leaves a small green icon that can be reopened.

In vtwm, to make the iconmanager visible again, use f.showiconmgr . Then ALL iconmanagers become visible again.

Is there a way to get vtwm to work the same way as twm does?

(i'll try here first, then mailing list)

[Callum Gibson]

See the DontIconifyByUnmapping option.

(Yes, most support is done via the mailing list)

[Callum Gibson]

By way of further explanation, IconifyByUnmapping option says to use icon managers instead of icons, including for the icon managers itself, since it's just another window. Then you can create exceptions to that with DontIconifyByUnmapping. Both of these options take an optional window list parameter.

[reikred]

IconifyByUnmapping option says to use icon managers instead of icons, including for the icon managers itself,

Using DontIconifyByUnmapping does not work for me. I tried

DontIconifyByUnmapping {
"xterm Icon Manager"
"VTWM Icon Manager"
}

Result: Both of these iconmanagers disappear without a trace when iconified, no green icon placeholder. Must invoke f.showiconmgr (via some menu) to get them (ALL) back.

Have you tried what I did and seen a different result? Have you seen a green icon when closing some iconmanager? If you do then there must besome other setting that I need to change. Thx.

[reikred]

Hold on, I found something out. Having * (star) in IconfiyByUnmapping works differently in vtwm than in twm. I inherited that setting from my old .twmrc file.

IconifyByUnmapping {
#   "*" # BAD to have * here, it will unmap even iconmanagers in vtwm, but not in twm.
    "tk"
    "Firefox"
    "blah"
}

Does this explanation make sense? I hope so.