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- From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Starting applications as icons
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.190953.15232@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 19:09:53 GMT
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- In article <1ick60INNbo1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, steve@pitacat.math.cwru.edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
- |> I would like to have several X applications start up as icons. Xwsh has
- |> an -iconic option built in, but other applications do not. I vaguely
- |> remember reading in some manual that it is possible to specify some
- |> resource to do this, but I have been unable to locate the reference.
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- It depends on the application. Any Xt-based application (e.g. Xaw,
- Motif) will accept -iconic and recognize the *iconic resource (e.g.
- -xrm "*iconic: true"). Other applications may or may not work
- depending on their widget set and command-line option handling.
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