Re: [gtk-list] Re: Titlebars and set_uposition

["Brian C. Lane" <nexus tatoosh com>]

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Michael J. Hammel wrote:

> In a previous message, Brian C. Lane says:
> >   How can I find out how tall the titlebar is and whether or not it exists
> > (so I can place the window correctly with +0+0), also I need to know about
> > the resize bar so that when someone does a -geometry -0-0 it is placed
> > correctly in the lowerr right corner).
> 
> You have to walk up the window tree (X windows, not GTK windows) using
> XQueryTree() in a loop till you find the window whose parent is the root 
> window.  This will be the Window Manager window.  Grab the window attributes 
> 
> To my knowledge there isn't any way to do this from GTK/GDK.  I looked, but
> there weren't any routines that would translate the coordinates or to query
> the parent window or the children of a window.  I probably just missed them.  

  It looks to me like this is a failing of GDK/GTK. Are there any plans to
add this kind of functionality to GTK+? Parsing standard X arguments
should be included as well I think.

  I just briefly looked at Xephem to see how it handles this stuff, and it
calls a routine called Xt[something] which I assume is a Motif routine to
handle parsing, I've got it compiled with LessTiff, but I haven't looked
at the LessTiff code to do the parsing yet.

  Brian

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