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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Placing a window under X11R4
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Date: 18 Sep 90 00:58:47 GMT
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> I am porting an X application from X11R3 to X11R4.  One of the
> problems I am encountering is getting the top-level window to place
> itself without the help of TWM.

This is entirely up to TWM.  If TWM decides that the user shall always
place new windows, your client really isn't in much position to argue
about it.  Some window managers can be told when to make the user place
the window; I don't know whether this is true of TWM or not.

In other words, you're trying to do this the wrong place.  It's not
something your client has control over; this is a window manager issue
and has to be dealt with as such.

					der Mouse

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