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From: jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Background color of a window (now XWindowAttributes)
Message-ID: <170@tityus.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 23:36:31 GMT
References: <8810311945.AA24289@thelake.cray.com>
Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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From article <8810311945.AA24289@thelake.cray.com>, by jlf@earth.CRAY.COM (John Freeman):
> I want to find the background pixel value of an existing window,
> one I did not create.  The XSetWindowAttributes structure has
> a field for background_pixel, but XGetWindowAttributes returns
> an XWindowAttributes structure which does not have this field.


	As long as this has been mentioned... There are a number of 
settable window attributes that cannot be retrieved from the window
using the XGetWindowAttributes. Sometimes there is a need for these
esoteric items to be gotten (such as trying to match the backing
pixmap of the root window..). This is Frustrating!!


	Is there any effort, or chance (at this late stage in the game),
to make the XSetWindowAttributes and the XWindowAttributes the same??
I know that this is impossible, as are (m)any changes, but what was the
motivation that went into this decision?


-Jim Becker