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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: GET_Display
Keywords: Display
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Date: 14 Feb 90 18:11:00 GMT
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In article <386@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu.edu>,
abmg@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Aliasghar Babadi) writes:
> 	I want to know if it is possible to access the display structure
> of an independent X application. I appreciate any help or comment. thank
> you all.

Not without a private IPC protocol with that application.  The display
structure is a client-side resource, so cannot be accessed through the
server.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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