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270) Why doesn't MWM display an iconify button on my dialog windows?

[Last modified: May 95]

Answer:  MWM (and some other window managers) does not allow transient windows
to be iconified.  Transients are automatically unmapped when the main shell is
iconified and they are re-mapped when the main shell is restored.  If you do
not want this transient behavior, you should use top a TopLevelShell widget
instead of a XmDialogShell widget for your windows.

Ken Lee, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/

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