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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: changing the parent window...
Message-ID: <19881013141954.2.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Oct 88 14:19:00 GMT
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There is no agreed upon way of specifying the parent window to run
inside of.  The ICCCM under review in the X Consortium currently
contains the notion of a "pseudo-root" that gives essentially this kind
of mechanism (but with a slightly different viewpoint), and we have
*experimental* support for this that will probably be in the R3 Xlib
implementation, but there are a number problems with it, and it may be
that a different solution is required.