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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: tvtwm -- printing window problem with tvtwm
Keywords: xwd, xprop, virtual root
Message-ID: <28513@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 5 Oct 90 20:53:24 GMT
References: <1990Oct3.135738.17668@cbnewsj.att.com> <5610@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> <14030@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA
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|> In article <5610@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>, rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) writes:
|> |> xwd looks for windows that are children of the server's root window.  tvtwm
|> |> creates its own virtual root window.  xwd will have to be modified to look
|> |> for windows that are children of this virtual root window.
|> If anyone is volunteering to fix "xwd", "xprop" has a similar problem.

A while ago I posted a little header file that can be included at the top of
most simple X programs that refer to the root window to make them honor
virtual roots.  I just tried this with both xwd and xprop and magically they
now work under tvtwm.

Cut the file below and include in dsimple.c after all X11 headers.

-- 
Andreas Stolcke
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@icsi.Berkeley.EDU
1957 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704	(415) 642-4274 ext. 126
---
/*
 * vroot.h -- Virtual Root Window handling header file
 *
 * This header file redefines the X11 macros RootWindow and DefaultRootWindow,
 * making them look for a virtual root window as provided by certain `virtual'
 * window managers like swm and tvtwm. If none is found, the ordinary root
 * window is returned, thus retaining backward compatibility with standard
 * window managers.
 * The function implementing the virtual root lookup remembers the result of
 * its last invocation to avoid overhead in the case of repeated calls
 * on the same display and screen arguments. 
 * The lookup code itself is taken from Tom LaStrange's ssetroot program.
 *
 * Most simple root window changing X programs can be converted to using
 * virtual roots by just including
 *
 * #include "vroot.h"
 *
 * after all the X11 header files.  It has been tested on such popular
 * X clients as xphoon, xfroot, xloadimage, and xaqua.
 *
 * Andreas Stolcke (stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU), 9/7/90
 */

#include <X11/X.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>

static Window
VirtualRootWindow(dpy, screen)
Display *dpy;
{
	static Display *save_dpy = (Display *)NULL;
	static int save_screen = -1;
	static Window root = (Window)NULL;

	Atom __SWM_VROOT = None;
	int i;
	Window rootReturn, parentReturn, *children;
	unsigned int numChildren;

	if ( dpy != save_dpy || screen != save_screen ) {
		root = RootWindow(dpy, screen);

		/* go look for a virtual root */
		__SWM_VROOT = XInternAtom(dpy, "__SWM_VROOT", False);
		XQueryTree(dpy, root, &rootReturn, &parentReturn,
				 &children, &numChildren);
		for (i = 0; i < numChildren; i++) {
			Atom actual_type;
			int actual_format;
			long nitems, bytesafter;
			Window *newRoot = NULL;

			if (XGetWindowProperty(dpy, children[i], __SWM_VROOT,
				0, 1, False, XA_WINDOW,
				&actual_type, &actual_format,
				&nitems, &bytesafter,
				(unsigned char **) &newRoot) == Success
			    && newRoot) {
			    root = *newRoot;
			    break;
			}
		}

		save_dpy = dpy;
		save_screen = screen;
	}

	return root;
}

#undef DefaultRootWindow
#define DefaultRootWindow(dpy) RootWindow(dpy, DefaultScreen(dpy))

#undef RootWindow
#define RootWindow(dpy,screen) VirtualRootWindow(dpy,screen)