Re: Moving a window wm independent

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma netcologne de> writes:
> 
> I want to move a whole window around. I tried 
> 
> gdk_window_move and gtk_widget_set_uposition.
> 
> They both do pretty the same. But the result depends on the windowmanager. sawfish for example puts the window _with_ the window border at the coordinate, enlightenment puts the inner area, i.e. _without_ the window border, at the coordinate.
> My problem is, that if I ask the coordinate via
> 
> gdk_window_get_origin, gdk_window_get_root_origin or gdk_window_get_position,
> 
> I got window manager independent answers. But I don't know how to set the position wm independently.
> 
> How is it possible to move a window independent of the window manager?
> 

Read the docs for gtk_window_move() in the GTK 2.0 reference manual.

Havoc