Re: detecting window visibility

[Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt>]

Dear Jon Trowbridge,

>Is there a way to detect if a window is visible, in the sense of not 
>    being obscured by another window on the desktop? (Or, to make matters 
>    worse, not "windowshaded" by the WM or placed off on another desktop.) 

> So just catching the visibility notification events alone won't do the
> trick.  Is there any way to detect these WM actions?
>

Could you explain why you want to detect these window actions?
Your problem might have a different solution... I use multiple
top windows in my app, and they interact well...

Carlos