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From: mikey@sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: root-window (DECwindows)
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.165053.28881@dragon.wpd.sgi.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:50:53 GMT
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In article <9497.27e527af@decus.com.au> taylort@decus.com.au (Trevor Taylor) writes:
>1. Get the children of the root
>2. Check for a window of exactly the same size as the root
>(and at 0,0 I think).

You should also check the map_state window attribute and make sure
it's IsVisible.  Otherwise, if you run mwm and restart it, you could
get confused with the full-screen window it creates for restarting and
keeps around (at least mwm 1.0 kept it around).

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