Re: Dumb question : E pager and GNOME

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Do you mean that doing an XReparentWindow() call is fairly naughty?  When
you say only some window managers support this, can you name a window
manager other than E that does not allow this?  I am not saying there is
no such window manager -- I am curious to know of other cases.

James.

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On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Tom Gilbert wrote:

> Yeah, AFAIK, gnome does some fairly naughty window reparenting to do
> its swallowing stuff, and e is refusing to get involved.
> 
> The way I see it, gnome is pretty much "mugging" the wm, and stealing
> its windows. Many wms give in to this without a fight (wimps), but e is
> much too hard, and slaps gnome back down as it should ;-)
> 
> Go E!
> 
> Of course the alternative perspective is that gnome does some pretty
> cool tricks to get windows reparented and into the panel, and that
> only some windowmanagers "support" this. Your viewpoint probably
> depends on your interpretation of the standard, but I think its 
> obvious what mine is ;-) 
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, only a wm should screw with windows.
> YOMV (Your Opinion May Vary).
> 
> Tom.