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From: jdi@franz.COM (John Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: [spr3161] Can I get some information from the window manager
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Date: 30 Apr 91 23:12:44 GMT
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A customer asks:

> Is it possible to get any of the following information from the window
> manager?
> 
> - the width of the border the WM draws
> - the height of the title bar
> - how wide a title bar would have to be to fit a specific title in
>   it. (i'd like to make sure that a window is wide enough for the full
>   title to be displayed)

I remember asking this question a long time ago (unfortunately not long
enough to be during the public review of the ICCCM however).  I find
nothing in the R4 version of the ICCCM that looks helpful.

Does noone out there care much about placement of multi-window
applications?  Is the consensus that the user has to take control
by providing Geometry resources?  Or does everybody design their
applications assuming a given window manager (and wm configuration)?

	-- John Irwin
	   Franz Inc.