Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!jumbo!jg From: jg@jumbo.dec.com (Jim Gettys) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: why does ... Message-ID: <13092@jumbo.dec.com> Date: 6 Jun 88 19:42:07 GMT References: <13188@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: jg@jumbo.UUCP (Jim Gettys) Organization: DEC Systems Research Center, Palo Alto Lines: 11 In article <13188@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> tek@CS.UCLA.EDU () writes: >Why does XGetWindowAttributes (the Xlib function) actually make two >protocol requests? (GetWindowAttributes and GetGeometry) It is one of my less-than-great ideas; the idea was to get all information about a window in one call, which can be potentially done in one round trip (by appropriate library hackery) rather than 2. It is not implemented that way at the moment (any volunteers to fix it out there?), and I'm not sure I'd do it this way again. - Jim Gettys