> I am currently writing my first XForms program, which is a port of an Athena
> widget/Xt based program. This program among other things shows the elapsed
> time, even when iconified. So I need to know if the program is iconified or
> not.
>
> [...]
>
> Anybody out there who has solved this?
You might consider registering a signal callback and firing a SIGALRM
at some appropriate interval. See the Appendix section A.6 (Signals)
for more detail.
spl