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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XQueryTree call illegal on RootWindow ?
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Date: 12 Apr 91 14:09:54 GMT
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    Date: 12 Apr 91 02:39:52 GMT
    From: ramakris@bloss.cs.vt.edu (S Ramakrishnan)

    Is it illegal to XQueryTree on the root window ?

    ...

No, it is perfectly legal.  In fact, "xwininfo -root -tree" does it.

However, your sample program declares two variables with the same
name, "children".  This is more likely to be your problem.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium