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From: keith@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Keith Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: window manager's reparenting
Message-ID: <100920241@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 20:42:13 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>/ hpcvlx:comp.windows.x / aob@lanl.gov (Alexander O. Brown) / 10:14 am  Aug  1, 1990 /
>If I understand it right, a window manager will create a new
>window like the orignal window with decorations and with the root
>as the parent, and then reparent the original window so that
>its new parent is the new window with decorations.
>
>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)?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>			Alex Brown
>			aob@beta.lanl.gov 
>----------

What you need to do is look through the children of the window you get
until you find the window with the WM_STATE property. This is the
original client. The window manager (at least an ICCCM compliant one)
puts a WM_STATE property on the windows it manages.



Keith M. Taylor		keith@cv.hp.com	
Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis, Oregon