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From: qfhca81@memqa.uucp (Henry Melton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: root-window (DECwindows)
Message-ID: <21241@memqa.uucp>
Date: 15 Mar 91 13:43:15 GMT
References: <9103081840.AA09751@mijen.inel.gov>
Organization: Memory R&QA, Motorola SPD
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In article <9103081840.AA09751@mijen.inel.gov>, dob@inel.GOV (Dave Brooks) writes:
> a "pseudo-root" or virtual root window.  the method used in vroot.h is to
> 1) get the children of the root window and 2) check each to see if they
> contain a certain property, the presence of which marks it as the
> pseudo-root (in your context).  
> 
I tried this, but could find nothing distinctive about the other windows
that the dec window manager creates.  But, with a little careless trial
and error, I found that by hardcoding in 0x800012 for the value of root
window in xv, I could get quite nice root window pictures under 
Dec Windows. I haven't checked it extensively for side-effects, and there 
probably are some, but at least it worked on all the ncd terminals running
DecWindows in our area.  

If anyone trys this, I would be cautious. 
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