minimize emacs

[Harold L Hunt II]

Jason,

Yes, that is exactly what I wanted.

I don't have time for a formal release announcement now, but I just 
posted XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-8 as a "test" release.  You have to manually 
select this in Cygwin's setup.exe when it shows up on mirrors in a few 
hours.

The new test release handles WM_CHANGE_STATE IconicState messages and 
calls ShowWindow (hWnd, SW_MINIMIZE).  I tested it with emacs and it 
works for me.  I can't believe that no one asked for this before... it 
seems to have been a missing feature for a long time.

Thanks for testing,

Harold

Jason Dufair wrote:
> Harold -
> 
> How does the following sound?
> 
> 
>>Check the function `x_iconify_frame' in xterm.c in the Emacs sources
>>to see what it does.  Basically, what it boils down to is Emacs
>>running `XIconifyWindow' which sends a `ClientMessage' with
>>`IconicState' to X.  See if the windowmanager listens to the
>>`WM_CHANGE_STATE' hint properly.
> 
> 
> 
> Harold L Hunt II <huntharo@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>Jason,
>>
>>I think this means that we have to trap a window manager
>>message/hint/whatever that tells us that an application is requesting
>>to be minimized.  It is up to our internal window manager to then
>>perform the minimization and report that to the app that the
>>minimization has been performed.
>>
>>Can anyone find some information about how this is implemented?  It
>>sounds fairly simple, so a quick example from somewhere could probably
>>help me get it done quickly.
>>
>>Harold
>>
>>Jason Dufair wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Andrew DeFaria <ADeFaria@Salira.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I wouldn't call it a fix, rather a default configuration. I think you
>>>>can put the following in your .emacs file:
>>>>
>>>>(global-set-key "\C-z" 'suspend-emacs-or-iconify-fram)
>>>
>>>I don't seem to have a 'suspend-emacs-or-iconify-frame.  When I call
>>>'suspend-emacs, I get "Suspending an emacs running under X makes no
>>>sense".  Thanks for the suggestion.  C-z does work under Linux for me,
>>>but no luck here.  C-z does have the effect of making the cursor hollow,
>>>however.  I suspect whatever tricks are being done with -multiwindow
>>>prevent iconify from behaving correctly.  Thanks for checking into it.
>>>
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