Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!stan!ninja!toml
From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: how do you get correct window position?
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.142654.987@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 90 14:26:54 GMT
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>>How do I get the *correct* (x,y) position of the window belonging to
>>the shell widget so I can create another one in exactly the same
>>place?
>
> If you have an ICCCM-compliant window manager (as I belive the R4 twm is)
> XtTranslateCoords should do the trick for you.

Yes but if he wants the new window to be positioned at the same
location as the already reparented one, doesn't he really need the
coordinates of the window manager's outside frame window?  As far as I
know, there is no way for an application to find the window manager's
outside frame window.  You can't simply find the ancestor that's on top
of the root, what if the window manager has placed its frame on a
"pseudo" root that's a child of the real root window.  I personally
would like to see a WM_ROOT property placed on client windows that
would contain the window ID of the "root" window for the client.  The
client would then be able to find the window manager's outside frame
window and it would also allow window managers to do interesting things
with "pseudo" root windows.

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Tom LaStrange

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