Re: Proposal for ConfigureRequest handling

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ben Jansens <xor orodu net> writes:
> 
> No, this doesn't solve it. The problem is this:
> 
> Window frame is at 30, 30.
> Client window is at 38, 38.
> 
> Now, an external program can acquire the 38,38 with an
> XTranslateCoordinates to the root window. But if they want to move the
> window right 1 pixel, well, how do they get the 30, 30? This offset
> would give them the offset of 8, 8, which they could use to do this.
> 
> If the external app could change the window's gravity to static, then
> it would work, but changing other window's gravities isn't very nice. :)
> 

Oh, I see. Indeed.

Havoc