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
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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