Re: Draw on the root window?

["[rSu]G-LiTe" <g-lite clanrsu com>]

Most blackbox based window managers don't. ;)
Ah well. I sortof thought the same. I'll just try to use one big window
and see if I can get it to go in the background anyways.
If anyone however knows how to do this, please reply, as in my opinion
it's the best way to do it and I'd like to do it that way if possible.

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> You're way better off just creating a big background window as
> Nautilus and kdesktop do. Both GNOME and KDE use that approach, the
> root window approach is quite hard to do (and has unfixable issues)
> even if you know a heck of a lot about X and GDK. Most WMs that are
> actively developed support it these days.
>
> Havoc
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