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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: window manager's reparenting
Message-ID: <11303@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 18:43:25 GMT
References: <58817@lanl.gov>
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In article <58817@lanl.gov>, aob@lanl.gov (Alexander O. Brown) writes:
|> In a program I am doing, I am selecting a window with the mouse and
|> it is giving me the window generated by the window manager (the
|> one with decoartions).  How can I get the original window
|> when I have this new decoarted window?  Does the function
|> XmuClientWindow achieve this (I am currently working
|> with release 3, so I cannot tell if it will work)?

Yes, XmuClientWindow will return the window you want if you're running
an ICCCM-compliant window manager (e.g. mwm, R4 twm).  Some window
managers which aren't really ICCCM-compliant will also work if they
set the WM_STATE property on the client window (e.g. hpwm, dxwm).

It shouldn't matter that you're running R3, unless XmuClientWindow
isn't available in R3.

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                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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