Re: Handling events for the root window

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:04:01PM -0500, Ramkumar Chinchani wrote:
> I am writing a window manager using gtk+ 2.0.
>
> I am packaging the GDK_ROOT_WINDOW as a GdkRoot widget and setting the 
> widget window as GDK_ROOT_WINDOW. However, I am unable to receive any
> events although I have set the event mask explicitly using
> gtk_widget_set_events().
>
> I am using the example given in the tutorial for creating custom
> made widgets. So, since the entire object-class code compiles, I am
> guessing, it is working ok.
>
> Any suggestions or pointers.

You might want to copy how existing GTK-using WMs work, such as
metacity. I think there may be others, I'm not sure.

Havoc