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From: geg@beep.melb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Placing a window under X11R4
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Date: 18 Sep 90 13:57:16 GMT
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Reply-To: geg@beep.melb.semi.harris.com (Greg Garland)
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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.

Hm... What about setting override_redirect to TRUE in the window attributes?
Doesn't this tell the window manager to bug off?

Greg G.