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From: dana@dino.bellcore.com (Dana A. Chee)
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Subject: Re: Novice X11 question on Borders
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Date: 14 Feb 89 13:33:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: hall@tulip.cis.ohio-state.edu's message of 13 Feb 89 22:12:04 GMT

In article <35027@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> hall@tulip.cis.ohio-state.edu (john hall) writes:

   However, my problem is that myforeground is WHITE and I still
   get a BLACK border.  Using essentially the same code ( copy
   and change) I have created a subwindow that does have the
   correct border color ==>  But I am still mystified why the
   top level window does not want to display a white border.

   Thanks for the help, though.

   John Hall

The reason is that the window managers control the border colors on
the top level windows (at least awm and twm do).  For a test, kill
your window manager and then run the program.  You should see what you
expect.  My vote isn't in yet if I like the idea, but since you can't
query a window for its border (pixel/tile), when the window manager
reparents the top window to add title bars, etc, it can't set the
parent's border to be the same as the child had (I wish it could, though).

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