Re: Proposal for ConfigureRequest handling

[Dominik Vogt <dominik vogt gmx de>]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 06:39:27PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 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. :)

The window manager is allowed to change the client window's
gravity, but no other applications may do so.

Bye

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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