Re: [gtkmm] Problem with refreshing a DrawingArea in a multi-threaded program

[MHL Schulze t-online de (Martin Schulze)]

Am 18.07.2002 22:13 schrieb(en) Paul Davis:
> >- Is it possible to make a window appear at a certain position on the
> >screen?
> >Well, preferrably not at hard-coded coordinates, but e.g. "if possible,
> next
> >
> >to (thus not covering) another window".
>
> i know of no way to do this. window placement is controlled by a
> combination of X client requests and X Window Manager policy. the
> interaction between the two of them puzzles and irritates many people.

I remember an example in the gtkmm tree (examples/dialog/dialog2.cc) that
tries to place a dialog centered above the application window. I have no
idea about the magic behind and have never tried it out, though.

  Martin