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From: toml@ninja.Solbourne.COM (Tom LaStrange)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Placing a window under X11R4
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.182841.4671@Solbourne.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 18:28:41 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.
|> 
|> Hm... What about setting override_redirect to TRUE in the window attributes?
|> Doesn't this tell the window manager to bug off?

Yes, but it tells it to bug off so well that you won't be able to move,
resize, iconify, raise, lower, ...  the thing.

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Tom LaStrange

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