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From: karlton@decwrl.dec.com (Philip Karlton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why can't I inquire about borders?
Message-ID: <108@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 13:18:44 EST
Article-I.D.: bacchus.108
Posted: Fri Oct 30 13:18:44 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 04:57:06 EST
References: <2771538053-221473@Sierra>
Reply-To: karlton@decwrl.UUCP (Philip Karlton)
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <2771538053-221473@Sierra> Kimbrough@dsg.csc.ti.COM (Kerry Kimbrough) writes:
	Apparently, there is no reliable way for a client to learn the
	border/background pixel/pixmap used by a window (barring a priori
	knowledge, of course).  In particular, a client cannot find out
	about a root window's border/background (i.e.  the one at the top
	of the chain of CopyFromParent defaults).  Pray, why is this?

This is because it is legal for a client to destroy the pixmap after it has
been set as a windows border or background. It was considered wrong for there
to be a protocol request that would return an ID for an X resource which was
no longer noisnoisn