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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: proper way to get keypress events within override-redirect windows
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Date: 5 Mar 90 18:49:18 GMT
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> I pop up the dialog as an override-redirect window.  The dialog has a...

An override-redirect dialog is almost always the wrong thing to do.  Make it
transient instead.  This will allow the user to move it or iconify it if he
wants to look at something else on his display.

Remember that you don't own the display, the user does.  Don't take away his
ability to move windows around unless there is a good reason for it.


						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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