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From: dshr@eng.sun.COM (David Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Placing a window under X11R4
Message-ID: <9009182036.AA12502@devnull.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 90 20:30:26 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
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> Hm... What about setting override_redirect to TRUE in the window attributes?
> Doesn't this tell the window manager to bug off?
> 
Yes,  but you should not use it except under some very special
circumstances:

-	when other windows should be prevented from processing
	input while the override-redirect window is mapped (see
	ICCCM section 4.1.10), or

-	while responding to ResizeRequest events (see ICCCM section
	4.2.9).

Use of override-redirect under other circumstances is "strongly
discouraged" (see ICCCM section 4.2.2).

	David.