Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!apollo!oj From: oj@apollo.uucp (Ellis Oliver Jones) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: GetWindowAttributes is deterministic, but the environment isn't Summary: beware reparenting window managers Message-ID: <3c684303.d5b2@apollo.uucp> Date: 1 Jun 88 22:21:00 GMT References: <8805291924.AA16344@tub.UUCP> <19880531195658.3.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: oj@canyon.UUCP (Ellis Oliver Jones) Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA Lines: 12 > From: Oliver Laumann> > Maybe I'm just dumb today, but it seems the result returned by > XGetWindowAttributes() is not deterministic. One thing to add to RWS's reply: Some window managers (uwm not included) reparent the client's top-level window. Thus, when you look at the x and y members of the XWindowAtttributes structure as filled in by XGetWindowAttributes, you may not find values relative to the root window. /oj