>In the case of apanel, there is no error message but the application starts
>up not as an icon.
>
>Perhaps what I was remembering was that there was a way to modify the behavior
>of GL programs. But either way, apanel is pure X, so that might not apply. I haven't figured out whether notepad is GL or pure X, but it does use a 12 bit deep visual.
>
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I don't know about apanel, but notepad has an undocumented option
"-i" for starting it up as iconic. Just do 'notepad -i'.
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