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How can an application iconify itself?

April 26, 2017application iconify

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How can an application iconify itself?

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In R4 and later, use the call XIconifyWindow. Ken Lee adds “Set XmNiconic on your shell. This should work in X11R6 and later patch levels of X11R5.” For R3, send an event to the root window with a type of WM_CHANGE_STATE and data IconicState. void IconifyMe (dpy, win) Display *dpy; Window win; /* toplevel window to iconify */ { Atom xa_WM_CHANGE_STATE; XClientMessageEvent ev; xa_WM_CHANGE_STATE = XInternAtom (dpy, “WM_CHANGE_STATE”, False); ev.type = ClientMessage; ev.display = dpy; ev.message_type = xa_WM_CHANGE_STATE; ev.format = 32; ev.data.l[0] = IconicState; ev.